Northern Uganda: Hopes for peace

The residents of Coo Pee internally displaced peoples camp look forward to the day peace will return to their villages. Then they will not have to live in congestion and will be able to cultivate freely (hm)

Kaciryano Obola

“Right now I have no land. Still, the only business I can do is digging. I do not have the food neither the money to feed my children. Every day I feel scared that rebels will come and burn me to death.”

Bosco Odong

“I have grown up in war, I have never tasted peace. I do not think freely. I am not aware of any future. I only pray that this war ends soon so that I can go back to my home village in Lwol Bilo and cultivate so that I can get the money to look after my young brothers and sisters.”

Akwong Filda

“I pray every day that this war stops so that I can get back to my home. In this camp, I feel like I am in prison. I am not supposed to go out of it before 8.00 am in the morning or to go beyond the 1km radius and I must be back before 6.00 p.m. I don’t feel free”.

Katarina Ajok
“In Agonga I was feeling free but here in the camp survival is very difficult, there is a lot of poverty, you cannot wake up at dawn to dig. You don’t even have land to dig”.