With 11.8 million people, Africa has the largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Uganda has approximately 869,000 IDPs due 2 decades of Joseph Kony's rebel activity and the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA is a guerrilla military group that is responsible for violent acts including abducting, massacres, sexual enslavement and many more human right violations. Even though the army's power has diminished and activities of LRA have been minimal in Uganda, Kony is live alive and the LRA is still active in neighboring countries, the Congo and Sudan.
With the decline of LRA, the number of IDP's has decreased dramatically from the 1.6 million. Villages of Hope Africa directly impacts those numbers!
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