Gulu

Location of Gulu in Uganda

Gulu is a city in north-western Uganda with about 146 832 inhabitants. It is the capital of the district of Gulu and one of the centers of the Acholi.

Infrastructure

The city has connection to the meter gauge railway line from Pakwach ( Albert Nile ) to Tororo on the Kenyan border. About Tororo is basically a rail link to the capital, Kampala. The railway line was out of service since 1993. The Rift Valley Railways financed the re-opening of the route to the east. After removal of the now -grown vegetation and repair of track and bridges was on 14 September 2013, the first commercial (freight ) train for 20 years on the continuous meter-gauge line from the Kenyan port of Mombasa via Nairobi and Eldoret to the Kenyan border in Tororo and will continue to Gulu.

Aviation

The Gulu airport has a fixed runway of 3,139 m in length, which was built in 1959. You should be in poor condition. Gulu Airport is after Entebbe Airport, the second biggest airport in Uganda, also has low international traffic.

Trunk road connections are available to Pakwach, the South Sudanese border at Nimule and direction Kamudini. With the capital Kampala Gulu is connected by a continuous paved main road.

Demographics

The regular influx of refugees Gulu is now the second largest city by population in the country.

Climate

Musical reception

The music band BAP engaged in their song (composed by Krumm Inga / Niedecken ) Noh Gulu ( translated from Kölschen: After Gulu ) the situation of children in the center, the night in fleeing forced recruitment as child soldiers by LRA rebels protect large, militarily guarded and searched up by World Vision camp in Gulu.

During the fighting between the UPDF and the LRA fled every night up to 15,000 children who were known as "night commuters " in the city. Since the cessation of hostilities in late 2006, the number of " night commuters " significantly reduced.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Okot p'Bitek (1931-1982), Ugandan poet