Angry women strip naked in Ugandan land dispute protest
Source:
Pangea Today
A long-running district border dispute in northern Uganda took a new turn when a group of elderly local women stripped naked before two visiting ministers, in protest against perceived land grabbing.
Members of the local Acholi tribe fear that a government plan to draw up new boundaries between the districts of Amuru and Adjumani will be the prelude to mass evictions, as happened in 2012 when over 6,000 Acholis were evicted to make way for a game reserve.
The protest led the ministers to announce a postponement of the boundary demarcation exercise pending further consultations with inter