Pader District

Paderborn is a district in northern Uganda. He had according to the census of 2002 142.320 inhabitants. The capital is the same Paderborn.

Location

The district Paderborn is located in the center of northern Uganda and the Acholi sub-region. In the northwest it borders on the district Lamwo and on the northeast by Kitgum, to the east lies the district Agago and southeast Otuke, while in the south Lira and Oyam lie and it is bordered to the west by Gulu.

General

Pader is one of the newer districts of Uganda. The district was split off in the year 2001, from the Kitgum district and collected by the County to the District, it consisted of the two counties Aruu and Agago. Agago but was separated in 2010 from Pader and collected into a separate district.

Together with the districts of Amuru, Agago, Gulu, Lamwo, Nwoya and Kitgum, Pader district that forms the Acholi sub-region, which includes the Uagndischen settlement area of this ethnic group.

The most widely used language is the Nilotic Luo dar. Furthermore, also the related Acholi, and Swahili are spoken.

Civil war

Between 1987 and 2008 suffered Pader as large parts of northern Uganda's always under attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army which the expulsion was further part of the population in protected storage or secure parts of the country result. So lived at the beginning of the 2000s a majority of the population protected by the army fugitive camps.

Since 2005, the situation in Pader, however, has largely calmed down and people could return to their villages.