Karamoja
Proper noun
Meaning
Karamoja
A region of Uganda.
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Examples
Brigadier Kavuma appealed to locals in Acholi, Lango and Karamoja sub region to vote for leaders that will ensure peace and stability in the country.
These funds were "earmarked as crucial support for rebuilding northern Uganda, ravaged by a 20-year war, and Karamoja, Uganda's poorest region."
Merian says most programmes have concentrated in Sebei region because Karamoja is remote and inaccessible.
The album's cover features a withered starving African child's hand being held and dwarfed by a white man's hand, a picture that had won the World Press Photo award in 1980, taken in Karamoja district in Uganda by Mike Wells.
Mr Simon Nangiro, the head of civil society organisations in Karamoja, says many voters are after money.