Uganda

In 1995, the presidents of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zaire asked The Carter Center to negotiate a regional initiative to repatriate 1. 7 million Rwandan refugees and curb violence in the region.

Waging Peace

In 1999, President Carter and the Conflict Resolution Program negotiated the Nairobi Agreement between Sudan and Uganda, in which both sides committed to stop supporting forces against each other's government and agreed to eventually re-establish full diplomatic relations between them, opening the door for improved regional peacemaking. Following the signing of the Nairobi Agreement, the Conflict Resolution Program engaged intensively to ensure its implementation, convening a multitude of ministerial and security meetings between the two governments and other interested parties and making strenuous efforts to initiate dialogue between the Lord's Resistance Army and the government of Uganda. Full diplomatic relations have since been restored between the two countries, and Uganda became a key regional partner in pushing for a peaceful resolution to Sudan's civil war.

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Fighting Disease

Invited by the Ugandan government, The Carter Center began working in 1991 with the Ministry of Health to establish one of the first African Guinea worm eradication programs. When the first active search was conducted, more than 120,000 cases of this debilitating and painful disease were found in more than 2,600 villages in 17 districts in the northern half of the country. After more than a decade of hard work, with Carter Center support, the nation reported its last indigenous case of Guinea worm disease in July of 2003.

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