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Ugandan Oscar Odongo, 5,stand on the rubble of a hut at Otwal Railway IDP camp in Oyam District
11 Sep 2007
Source: Reuters
 
Ugandan Oscar Odongo, 5, stands on the rubble of a hut at Otwal Railway IDP camp in Oyam District, it is one of the 9 camps remaining with a population of 17,238, in Oyam District of Lango Sub Region, September 11, 2007. Uganda's government declared, on Tuesday, the official closure of the Internally Displaced Persons Camps in the Apac and Oyam Districts after two decades of war, as security returns to the north of the country.
REUTERS/ANTONY NJUGUNA


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Women collect beans from a garden devastated by floods in Abedijo Village September 16, 2007. Floods from torrential rains have caused the deaths of at least 80 more people, displaced thousands, and devastated crops and livestock across sub-Saharan Africa, officials said last Friday.



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