Crisis profile: What's going on in northern Uganda?

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Twenty thousand children forced to serve as soldiers and sexual slaves. Gruesome massacres and mutilations. More than 1.8 million people driven from their homes into camps where they live in fear and squalor.

Few horror stories rival the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda, where a cult-like rebel group has been terrorising local people for a generation. It’s a tale of astonishing suffering and massive displacement – and all taking place in a country hailed as one of Africa’s development success stories.

Yet northern Uganda’s nightmare has been largely ignored by the international community, even as the humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Sudan generates hand-wringing worldwide and a steady flow of headlines.

What is going on in northern Uganda....