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	District Information Portal :: Gulu District
		Gulu is said to be at the centre of the northern region partly because of the several districts it neighbours.
		Gulu is a multi-ethnic district though some 85 percent of the people are of the Acholi ethnic group.
		The main languages in Gulu are Luo, English, Swahili, Madi, Lugbara, Luganda, Acholi and Kinubi.
	www.gulu.go.ug (518 words)

	Kroc Institute: Who goes to Gulu?
		In April 2004 I was invited to visit Northern Uganda, in particular the town of Gulu, 220 miles (360kms) north of the capital Kampala, and center of military and humanitarian operations for the region.
		Kony started out as a healer from a peasant family, and is also described as a “former altar boy.” In the 1980s he recast himself as chosen to lead the Acholi out of subjugation using forms of “spiritual cleansing.” Eclectic in his ritual strategies, he reportedly speaks in tongues and occasionally dresses in women’s clothes.
		Back in Gulu that Saturday evening, we visited one of the largest of the night-commuter camps for children, known as Noah’s Ark. Accompanied by the spirited young Kenyan camp director, we visited the various tents and makeshift dormitories where more than 5,000 children come to sleep each night.
	www.nd.edu /~krocinst/colloquy/issue6/gulu.shtml (2667 words)

	The New Vision University guide 2005-2006
		Located 380 kilometres north of Kampala, Gulu University is the beacon of hope for the northern region that has seen years of insurgency.
		Gulu University is located in Laroo division in Gulu municipality about 4km northeast of Gulu town.
		It is poised to make a significant contribution and sustainable development in Uganda and serve as a launch pad for equitable development by stimulating innovations in education, technical and economic empowerment in the country.
	www.enteruganda.com /brochures/gulu.html (475 words)

	Archdiocese of Gulu - UGANDA
		The Archdiocese of Gulu is located in Northern Uganda, and covers the three civil administrative districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader.
		The Archdiocese of Gulu is served by both the Diocesan Clergy and Religious communities in meeting the pastoral needs of the people in northern Uganda.
		The Archdiocese of Gulu is blessed with Vocations to the priesthood, religious life and lay ministry of the Catechists.
	www.archdioceseofgulu.org (439 words)

	Gulu District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulu is a district in northern Uganda, taking its name from its commercial centre, the town of Gulu.
		It is one of three districts forming the historical homeland of the Acholi ethnic group, also known as Acholiland.
		Gulu is the birthplace of prominent poet Okot p'Bitek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulu_District (259 words)

	GULU by Bea Ahbeck- The Digital Journalist
		She was abducted and held for six years before being hit in the jaw by a bullet from government soldiers.
		I am going to Gulu to tell their story, and that of the so-called "Night Commuters," the thousands of children who night after night, year after year, walk from the villages where they live into the city of Gulu in search of a safe place to sleep so they won't get abducted by the LRA.
		Former child soldier Justin Oketayot, 13, who was abducted from Bobi in the Gulu District, sweeps the hillside at the GUSCO (Gulu Support the Children Organization) Child Soldier Rehabilitation Center in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
	www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0607/gulu.html (2166 words)

	SOS Children's Villages: SOS Emergency Relief Programme in Gulu, Uganda
		A fast response in emergency situations, as in the case of the Gulu aid project, needs to be reinforced by a continuous form of basic support in life in line with the needs of the affected children.
		Yet this is exactly what happens in the area around Gulu town in northern Uganda - home to the notorious Lord's Resistance Army - as children head for the safety of the town (report dated 24 January 2003).
		Increased rebel activity in northern Uganda puts children at risk The village is located in the Gulu suburb of Pece, which has been relatively peaceful, at least for the last couple of months.
	www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/sos_emergency_relief_programme_in_gulu_uganda.html (829 words)

	project Gulu Rotary Club of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Each evening in Northern Uganda children leave their villages to retreat to the relative safety of the town of Gulu to avoid being captured by the rebel army to serve as ''boy or girl soldiers''.
		At sunset the inhabitants of Gulu witness the incredible sight of 2000 children leaving their home villages to congregate in the town hoping to sleep in the comparative safety of Gulu.
		The local Save the Children organisation in Gulu 'GUSCO', and in partnership with the Danish Save the Children, are now totally overwhelmed in trying to meet the most basic needs of the rescued child soldiers, and further support is urgently needed.
	www.holzminden.com /gulu/general_information/article_01.html (810 words)

	Amici di Gulu per il Nord Uganda - Home Page
		The Association Amici di Gulu (Friends of Gulu) is born in 1997 out of the passion of a group of friends for the history and the fates of the populations of Northern Uganda.
		Among other things, in the past few years, Fr Edo's work, supported by the Association, permitted the construction of a boarding school, and several wells in order to avoid debilitating travels on foot to recover the water (often covered by children who are forced to abandon the school).
		The Diocesan priests and the missionaries scattered in the 22 parishes of Gulu Archdiocese, financially supported by Father Edo, try to reach everywhere in order to bring their material and spiritual aid to the local population.
	www.amicidigulu.org /indexEng.htm (382 words)

	More children seeking refuge in Gulu at night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		GULU, 8 May 2003 (IRIN) - The number of children seeking refuge in Gulu town centre, northern Uganda, has dramatically increased following a spate of rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks and abductions in the area, officials said on Thursday.
		Thousands of children are now abandoning their homes in Gulu’s suburbs and surrounding areas to spend their nights in the relative safety of the town centre, before returning to their villages during the day.
		It was set up in March with the intention of providing a secure shelter for children in high-risk areas to spend their nights, free from the dread of abduction.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=33963 (532 words)

	New Vision Online : Gulu was named after a valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the past, the valley was so deep and a funny noise which sounded like “gulu gulu gulu gulu” would be heard whenever it rained heavily.
		Gulu district has 23 sub-counties, one of which is called Amuru, which means ‘boiling’.
		Some of the tourists attractions in Gulu include the Baker Fort, which was built by Sir Samuel Baker in 1864 in Patiko sub-county.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/8/26/522138 (970 words)

	MSN India - Chat with Gulu Ezekiel
		Gulu Ezekiel …the name that has become almost as famous as the subject of his recent book… Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman (Penguin India).
		Gulu Ezekiel is one of India’s leading and most versatile sports journalists.
		Gulu has contributed to six other books and has written extensively for more than 50 publications around the world.
	server1.msn.co.in /features/gulu/Gulu.asp (286 words)

	Gulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulu is the commercial and administrative centre of Gulu District in Uganda, located at 2˚46'00N 32˚16'00E, on the railway from Tororo to Pakwach.
		In March, Choice FM a local radio station was closed after hosting a 28 February debate between politicians from the ruling party and the opposition.
		This page was last modified 00:58, 21 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulu (150 words)

	Posts tagged with Gulu \| MetaFilter
		They are sent by their parents in an attempt to escape the Lord’s Resistance Army, the armed militia in a civil war that has for years been stealing kids from their homes, turning them into soldiers, servants and sex-slaves.
		On October 22nd, raise awareness by marching in a Gulu Walk, in 41 cities from Halifax to San Diego to Serbia to Gulu itself.
		The Night Commuters are children from rural areas near Gulu who must travel into the city each night to remain safe from kidnappers in the countryside.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/Gulu (176 words)

	Gulu, Uganda: Donate to Help Children of War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Gulu area of northern Uganda is plagued by a triple scourge of war, AIDS, and poverty.
		You'll also support the Children of War Rehabilitation Center, where thousands of formerly abducted children have found peace, healing and hope for a new life.
		And you'll bring compassionate assistance to orphans, vulnerable children and other Gulu residents affected by AIDS through community-based networks of care.
	www.worldvision.org /Worldvision/eappeal.nsf/egiftcp?Open&lid=Gulu_Pledge&lpos=main (155 words)

	Gulu Nap - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This project is part of a wide project of notable social and cultural importance, which starts with the recent activation of a Faculty of Medicine at the Gulu University in Uganda.
		The Federico II University of Naples was appointed responsible of the quality of the training process of the new Ugandan doctors (Project GULUNAP) and it is thus necessary to establish operative links among the Italian teaching staff, the thirty young Ugandan teachers and the sixty students of the new Faculty.
		In the process of set up of the Gulu Faculty of Medicine, e-learning is indeed a factor of acceleration, able to amplify resources and results.
	www.gulunap.unina.it /eng/progetti.htm (541 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Postcard from Gulu
		It was brought home to me when, on the day I arrived in Gulu, rebels of the Lords Resistance Army attacked a pick-up truck travelling from Kitgum to Gulu killing seven people and seriously injuring four others.
		This is the Gulu that the two front runners in Uganda's presidential elections have to win over.
		A Gulu whose population has been hardened by disease and war; a people with a deep mistrust for government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1202661.stm (480 words)

	Voices of Youth - Gulu Walk
		The 3rd Annual Gulu Walk will take place in cities around the world on the 21st day of October.
		Gulu is a region in northern Uganda where the brutal civil war has raged for over 20 years.
		The Gulu Walk will take place at dusk in cities around the world and the group will walk ten kilometers (or so) to 1.
	www.unicef.org /voy/discussions/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=633&day=2006-9-14&c=1 (198 words)

	health035 Is Ebola spreading from Gulu?
		According to the BBC, the one reported dead in Mabarara was "soldier who had been at the army barracks in Gulu" and he "became ill after moving to the barracks in Mbarara." The soldier died last Friday about five days after showing typical Ebola symptoms.
		However, the Gulu region is located relatively close to the two, former core areas of the disease, Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo Kinshasa (DRC).
		The Ebola virus was first identified in a western equatorial province of Sudan and in a nearby region of the DRC in 1976 after significant epidemics in Yamkubu (Northern DRC) and Nzara (Southern Sudan).
	www.afrol.com /Categories/Health/health035_ebola_spreads.htm (641 words)

	New Vision Online : Ebola Survivors In Gulu Still Sick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Several Ebola survivors interviewed in Gulu complain of frequently falling sick, backache, headache, waist pain, pain along the spinal cord, poor sight, chest pain and general body weaknesses that limits their ability to work.
		Ebola was first confirmed in Gulu on October 8, 2000 and it killed about 171 people, including medical workers such as Dr Mathew Lukwiya, the then Medical superintendent of Lacor Hospital (in Gulu).
		One reminder of Ebola in Gulu is the communal burial ground of Ebola victims, which is in Bar Dege Division in Gulu Municipality, West of Gulu airfield.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/9/34/346644 (545 words)

	USAID Africa: Uganda Deaf Trainers
		With support from USAID's regional Omega Initiative, the Gulu Association of the Deaf in Uganda is training some of its members to teach sign language to deaf persons living in nearby communities.
		The Gulu Association for the Deaf, established in 1996, is a member of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf.
		Many members of the Gulu District association do not have adequate sign language to understand complex messages and the situation in the other areas is even worse.
	www.usaid.gov /locations/sub-saharan_africa/features/uganda_deaf_trainers.html (484 words)

	Help Heritage Christian School raise money for the Gulu Children in Uganda!
		It is estimated that around 20,000 children have been abducted by the LRA since 1987 for use as soldiers and sex slaves.
		We are trying to raise enough money to buy houses, and an entire village including a well and other such necessitiesto help these children that are living in daily peril without even the basic necessities that we in North America have an excess of.
		Students of Heritage Christian School are trying to raise at least $20,000 to begin a school for Gulu children and women that were forced into sex slavery and never allowed to go to school or learn even the basics of education.
	www.creatorsdesign.com /gulu.htm (398 words)

	Returned Volunteers Voice
		The Gulu Lancashire Local Agenda 21 Link was established in Gulu to represent the interests of all sectors of the Gulu community.
		The counterpart organisation Lancashire Gulu Local Agenda 21 Link Ltd was established in Lancashire in 1997.
		Through the link, community organisations, schools and other groups in Lancashire and Gulu are working together on activities which build friendship and understanding, and which contribute to the progress of Local Agenda 21 and the goals of sustainability.
	www.iol.ie /~vmmeurgo/Lancashire-Gulu_Link.html (338 words)

	Help for Gulu: Introducation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gulu, The North, The L.R.A. Sir Samuel Baker School
		Then the school and the district of Gulu were thriving, but when I revisited in October 2005 the widespread devastation wreaked in years of neglectful dictatorship (notably by Idi Amin and Milton Obote) and the fanatical rebellion by the so-called ‘Lords Resistance Army’ was all too apparent.
		Massive amounts of assistance are required from the Ugandan Government, the UN and large Aid Organisations to tackle the major problems of refugee safety and resettlement, and of economic regeneration.
	www.helpforgulu.com (204 words)

	Civil Aviation Authority Uganda : Gulu
		Gulu Airfield is a designated Entry and Exit point.
		Gulu Airport terminal building is in good condition.
		Telephones service is provided by Uganda Telecom Limited for the fixed line and MTN for mobile telephone services.
	www.caa.co.ug /gulu.php (88 words)

	Gulu et Kisubi Uganda. Soeur Claire Michelle
		We reached Gulu in the late afternoon and went straight to Lacor Minor Seminary.
		We remembered that a number of adolescent girls had been kidnapped by the Kony rebels in the past.
		People were squeezed in subhuman conditions, leaving in overcrowded conditions and therefore hygiene was very poor.
	soeurs-blanches.cef.fr /guluetkisumbia.htm (754 words)

	Gulu Walk - City Hall :: seems Artless
		I had also volunteered to stay overnight to watch over the organizers, Adrian (on the left, with the hat) and Kieren (on the right), who sleep at city hall, then walk back home another 12km.
		raise awareness and support for the 'night commuters; the children of rural northern Uganda, who, to avoid abduction by the rebel army, walk every night towards the safety of larger cities, like Gulu, from as far as 12km away.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License by David Sky, 2004-2006.
	www.seemsartless.com /index.php?pic=392 (204 words)

	Gulu Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Just this week, Ugandan president Museveni has agreed to send a team of ministers to the LRA base at Ri-Kwangba, as part of a series of confidence-building measures.
		This follows a request by LRA leader Joseph Kony, which was delivered to the President through Gulu RDC Col. Walter Ochora.
		In addition, government officials who just returned from visiting LRA leader Joseph Kony in his hideout said today they had succeeded in opening up a direct phone line between Kony and President Yoweri Museveni -- a development they hoped would speed up peace talks under way in south Sudan.
	www.guluwalk.com (602 words)

	GuluFuture.org Helping the Acholi people build a Future
		There was excitement from the mammoth crowd as one of the birds flew back and settled on his head.
		Besigye had gone to Gulu after addressing rallies in Lira and Apac districts, to see the injured Aswa County MP Reagan Okumu at Gulu Independent Hospital.
		Following his aquittal on politically-motivated charges of murder, Ugandan MP, Michael Ochula is back as Director of Elections for the FDC party, now aiming to unseat President Museveni from his 20 year reign --at elections scheduled for March, 2006.
	breakfornews.com /gulufutureorg/january-06.htm (1843 words)

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