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): 861,590 (South Sudan) (refugees and asylum seekers), 389,276 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers), 45,671 (Burundi), 37,960 (Somalia) (refugees and asylum seekers), 16,272 (Rwanda) (refugees and asylum seekers), 13,563 (Eritrea) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2019)
IDPs: 32,000 (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, land disputes, and cattle raids) (2018)