
No. 283 / September 1996
Field of dreams
Life in a refugee settlement
Life in a refugee settlement

- Editor's letter
- Editor's letter in RealAudio and Shockwave audio
As children sing in their classroom, Nikki van der Gaag explains New Internationalist's decision to visit the Ikafe refugee camp in Uganda. - Field of dreams
Nikki van der Gaag journeys to Ikafe, a Sudanese refugee settlement in northern Uganda, but finds that not everything goes as planned...
- Tents, trees and tukuls
Learning how everything works and warding off the scorpions.
- Map of Ikafe
- Exile
What is it like to be forced to leave your home and your country? Five refugees tell their own stories.
- Food and fair shares
Watching a food distribution system that puts the refugees in charge.
- A gift from God
Alice and Lona explain how things have changed for women - and men - since coming to Ikafe.
- REFUGEES - THE FACTS
- Trading places
Local Ugandans first welcomed their Sudanese neighbours. But things have not always gone smoothly since.
- Bikes bruises and boreholes
A cycle ride reveals the central role of water.
- Democracy in waiting
Members of Ikafe's Refugee Council explain how the new electoral system works.
- Simply - Sudan and Uganda
- The last weapon
The Southern Sudanese have travelled a long way in order to get a good education for their children.
- Under fire
An attack on Ikafe makes its future uncertain.
- Action/Reading
What you might read and what you can do.
- Letters
- Letter from Moscow
- Update
- The NI Interview with Harry Wu
- Reviews: film, books and music, plus Carolyn Merchant classic
- Curiosities and NI Crossword
- Endpiece
- Country profile: Barbados
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