No. 283 / September 1996

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Field of dreams
Life in a refugee settlement

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• 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.

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• 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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