Over 3,000 Ugandans Flee to Southern Sudan

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Over 3,000 Ugandans Flee to Southern Sudan

Over 3,000 residents of Olego village, Bibia parish in Atiak sub-county, Uganda's northern district of Gulu have fled to Nimule in southern Sudan.

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Over 3,000 residents of Olego village, Bibia parish in Atiak sub-county, Uganda's northern district of Gulu have fled to Nimule in southern Sudan.

This follows repeated attacks in the areas by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, Atiak official George Odong was quoted Monday by the government newspaper New Vision as saying.

He said that residents were fleeing to southern Sudan and that others had fled to northwestern Adjumani district.

The LRA rebels had threatened to kill more than 100 residents in an attack similar to that of 1994 when the rebels massacred over 260 residents in cold blood.

Odong said the residents fled due to lack of security, adding that the displaced people were willing to return if a detachment of the Ugandan government army was set up in the area.

He said that the displaced were faced with acute food and watershortages coupled with poor sanitation facilities, adding that "our people are liable to getting diseases and measles due to the poor conditions."

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