{UAH} The high cost of living in ‘Kony Town’

The high cost of living in 'Kony Town'

Written by: amrwaga on 11th June 2012

Posted by Anthony Rwaga, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, June 11, 2012

A signpost indicating consumer commodity prices in Gulu, Uganda

War in Uganda is over. But as humanitarian organizations pull out of the region, locals are left battling an economy so ravaged that people struggle to feed themselves. Our correspondent surveys the situation in the city hardest hit by warlord Joseph Kony's 18-year insurgency.

"I sometimes fail to even provide breakfast for my two children, so I give them porridge for lunch and then they eat cassava in the evening for supper," says Juliet Laker. Despite her regular work as a vegetable vendor at Gulu Main Supe

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