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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]
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.
The first indication of the past existence of a people known as Oropom was through fieldwork done by J.G.Wilson in the mid-20th century. While resident in Karamoja region of Uganda, he came across widespread and abundant archaeological material including stone tools and pottery of a nature also found in Karasuk, Turkana and West Pokot districts in Kenya.
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 District t in Karamoja .
The Ministry for Karamoja Affairs is a cabinet level government ministry of Uganda. ... in the Central Division of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The ...
The district is part of the Karamoja sub-region, home to an estimated 1.2 million Karimojong. Kaabong has two counties: Dodoth East County and Dodoth West County. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This is divided into one town council, Kaabong , and thirteen sub-counties: Lobalangit, Kawalako, Kapedo , Lolelia , Lodiko, Kathile , Sidok , Kalapata , Kamion, Kaabong ...
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).