Disputes - international:
Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces that extend across its borders; Ugandan refugees as well as members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) seek shelter in southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park; LRA forces have also attacked Kenyan villages across the border

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 1,037,898 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers); 242,406 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers); 40,634 (Burundi) (refugee and asylum seekers); 15,260 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2017); 37,193 (Somalia) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2018)
IDPs: 53,000 (displaced in northern Uganda because of fighting between government forces and the Lord's Resistance Army; as of 2011, most of the 1.8 million people displaced to IDP camps at the height of the conflict had returned home or resettled, but many had not found durable solutions; intercommunal violence and cattle raids) (2016)