Loyoro is a village in the

Kaabong District Kaabong District is a Districts of Uganda, district in the Northern Region, Uganda, Northern Region of Uganda. The district headquarters are in the similarly named town of Kaabong. Location Kaabong District is bordered by South Sudan to the north ...

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

. It is in Kapedo Parish in Kapedo sub-county. Loyoro lies in an area of low, rocky hills, with badly eroded soil. There are dense thickets of acacia thorn with

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and other succulents, making grazing difficult for the flocks and herds of the

Dodoth people The Dodoth (or Dodos) are an ethnic group in north eastern Uganda. They belong to the Karamojong Cluster, which also includes the Karamojong and Jie people. Their language is a dialect of the Karamojong language. Their population is estimated ...

who live in the region. The community has a government-sponsored primary school. A 2009 study found widespread malnutrition. 56.9% of people were stunted and 45.1% underweight. More than 88.6% of the people were over from a health center. More than 90% used the bush rather than a latrine. Security is a concern throughout the Karamoja Cluster side of Uganda. On 4 December 2009 a large group of Jie warriors crossed Loyoro sub county towards

Mount Morungole Mount Morungole lies within the Kidepo Valley National Park, north-east Uganda, Africa. It is in the rugged, semi-arid Karamoja province near the border with the Sudan. Neighbouring peaks are Mount Zulia, and the Labwor and Dodoth Hills reach hei ...

and raided a protected kraal. They clashed with the army, losing 50 dead while nine soldiers of the

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(UPDF) were killed. A March 2010 report said that as usual the movement of livestock away from the homesteads to dry season pastures have made them vulnerable to raids. Most of these raids had taken place in pastoral areas of Loyoro, northeast of Kaabong.

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