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The Karamoja sub-region, commonly known as Karamoja, is a region in Uganda. It covers an area of 27,528km and comprises the Kotido District , Kaabong District , Karenga District , Nabilatuk District , Abim District , Moroto District , Napak District , Amudat District and Nakapiripirit District .
The Karamojong live in the southern part of the region in the north-east of Uganda, occupying an area equivalent to one tenth of the country.According to anthropologists, the Karamojong are part of a group that migrated from present-day Ethiopia around 1600 A.D. and split into two branches, with one branch moving to present day Kenya to form the Kalenjin group and Maasai cluster. [6]
The Ministry for Karamoja Affairs is a cabinet level government ministry of Uganda. The ministry is responsible for the coordination of all government programs in the five districts of the Karamoja sub-region. [1] John Byabagambi is the minister for Karamoja affairs. [2] [3] [4]
The Anglican dioceses of Northern Uganda are the Anglican presence in (roughly) ... (previously Archdeacon of Karamoja; consecrated 11 January 1976, by Janani Luwum ...
Karenga is a town in the Karenga District, in the Karamoja sub-region, in northeast Uganda. It is the administrative and commercial headquarters of Karenga District, which became effective in 2019. [1] The town is one of the primary gateways into Kidepo Valley National Park. Karenga town is composed of various tribes both from Acholi and ...
The Nyangia community are a tribe in North-eastern Uganda. They live on the slopes of Nyangea Mountains, west of Kidepo Valley National Park, along the Ugandan border with South Sudan. The Nyangia also called Nyang'i, Nyangea or Nyangia are part of the Nilotic ethnic group largely found in Karenga Districtt in Karamoja. [3] [4]
Kaabong District became functional on 1 July 2005. Prior to that, it was known as Dodoth County in Kotido District.The district is part of the Karamoja sub-region, home to an estimated 1.2 million Karimojong.
There is very little written about them, but local oral history records all these groups as having been the inhabitants of wider areas of present-day Karamoja who took refuge in the mountains when the Karamojong arrived from Ethiopia in the 17th century (see Karamojong people).