Karamojong

Claiming all cattle as their own, they rustle – and in turn are raided – by fellow Karamojong groups as well as Turkana tribes from Kenya and the Toposa groups in South Sudan.

Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life 2011

Perhaps a picture of Mama Janet cuddling a snotty nosed Karamojong baby will be good PR for the Museveni government.

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Writing to the head of the EU delegation in Kampala, she said food aid money to the region, which regularly experiences hunger, is to be phased out, with the Karamojong families having to depend more on homegrown food.

Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life 2011

Perceptions of their archaic life belie the fact that they have completely adapted to their environment, says Pascal Pan Vuga, a British-trained Ugandan vet who has spent 17 years working with the Karamojong.

Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life 2011

But now the Karamojong tribes' days as nomads and warriors may be numbered.

Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life 2011

Moroto was inhabited by the Karamojong tribe, traditional herders who roamed the countryside in search of water and forage for their livestock.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Karamojong raiding parties set upon their neighbors and claimed herds owned by the Iteso and Acholi people.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Hoping to co-opt some of the warlords and to create an informal buffer against the expanding Acholi insurgency, it urged Karamojong men to register their rifles in return for monthly stipends of about ten dollars.23 What had been illegal in Uganda had become so entrenched that policy now sanctioned it with cash.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Their region was formally Ugandan but never fully under Ugandan control, and as a seminomadic people, many Karamojong saw themselves as unincorporated.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

As the Karamojong were changed by their acquisition of Kalashnikovs, the Egyptian experience with the rifles also took an ugly turn.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010