And now it's time for the regional news...

(Thanks to Google Alerts doing their job and alerting me.) The last harvest in Karamoja was indeed pretty good - or at least normal - so the whole area should have enough food to get them through the rest of the year. That's the good news; the article goes on to talk about the many displaced people in Northern Uganda, which is often ravaged by the LRA. (See this Uganda conflict blog for some more info.)

In other news, the government of Uganda is what? burning Karamojong guns. I kid you not, it's all in this statement. Now maybe I am rather prejudiced against the gov't and in favor of the K'jong, even though I realize that many of the Karamojong are murderers, thieves, drunkards, wife (or husband!) beaters, etc. But is it fair to make them sound like savages, and burn their guns because you don't want to outfit the military with AKs taken from "criminals"? It's a good thing they didn't do their gun-burning in Karamoja, because I think there might have been a riot. But anyway, I suppose this might also be a good thing, as far as eliminating some of the violence in Karamoja.