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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The government has drafted an emergency resettlement plan for the close to 2 million people displaced by the brutal 19-year northern Uganda insurgency, the prime minister said Thursday, two days after a truce with rebels began.
As the truce takes hold, civilian police are set to replace soldiers in northern Uganda as the main security force there, and improving the infrastructure will be key elements of the plan, Prime Minister Apollo Nsibambi said.
The government announced its plan, which Nsibambi said still needed Cabinet approval, a day after soldiers began withdrawing to neutral positions to provide rebels safe passage to assembly areas where they can be monitored until a final peace deal.
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