UGANDA

COMPENDIUM OF CONFLICTS IN UGANDA
One participant said;
“They took us to some place called Nubulengele which was
a gazetted area. It was undesirable and uncomfortable. Not
a single NGO has come to help us since we were returned to
Karamoja.”
In Hoima, participants lamented that the discovery of oil in the region has caused people
in these areas to be displaced from their land without receiving adequate compensation.
Participants in Hoima also discussed conflicts between host communities and refugees,
who were said to overload the capacity of social services in the district.
Participants also discussed forms of forced displacement unrelated to human violence.
In Mbarara, participants discussed displacement caused by magma from the volcanic
Muhabura Mountain and displacement due to landslides. Similarly, in Bulambuli
participants recalled displacement due to landslides, floods and droughts and reported
on conflicts between host communities and displaced people.
LAND CONFLICTS
Land, as well as the forests above ground and the minerals below, feature amongst the
most prominent and widespread drivers of conflict in Uganda today. Land conflict was
mentioned in every
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