In this photo taken Wednesday, December 13, 2017, Jackline Akot, 36, who was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as a teenager and had two children before escaping, stacks the bricks that she and her family make in Laliya Oguru village, near Gulu, in Uganda. A brutal rebellion by the LRA brought years of suffering to the people of northern Uganda and now that the fighting is over, a group of former child soldiers is helping some heal through music therapy. (Photo by Adelle Kalakouti/AP Photo)





Women sell bananas in the street, after traders in markets were prohibited from selling any non-food items in an attempt to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, March 26, 2020. (Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/AP Photo)





In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee girl with a baby on her back carries a foam mattress to the communal tent where they will sleep, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. International donors are threatening to withdraw funding for Uganda's South Sudanese refugee crisis over allegations that include misuse of relief items and the trafficking of girls and women, a government official said Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Ugandan military police, one wearing a balaclava with a skull painted on, patrol where supporters of pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine gather, in the Kisekka Market area of Kampala, Uganda Thursday, August 23, 2018. Bobi Wine, who opposes the longtime president Yoweri Museveni, was charged with treason in a civilian court in Gulu on Thursday, minutes after a military court dropped weapons charges. (Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/AP Photo)





Congolese families, who fled from Democratic Republic of Congo by fleeing on a boat across Lake Albert, prepare meals at United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) Kyangwali refugee settlement camp, Uganda March 19, 2018. (Photo by James Akena/Reuters)





In this Thursday, June 8, 2017 file photo, from left to right, South Sudanese refugees Thomas Wani, 12, brother Peter Lemi, 14, mother Rose Sunday, and father Julius Lezu, cross a wooden bridge from South Sudan to Uganda at the Busia crossing, near Kuluba, in northern Uganda. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





African elephants stand under a tree at the Murchison Falls National Park in northwest of Uganda, on January 25, 2020. When exploitable crude oil deposits were discovered in 2006 in the Lake Albert region, Uganda began to imagine itself as a new oil Eldorado. But 14 years later, the mirage has faded, and it is still waiting to extract its first drops of black gold This discovery had raised wild hopes in a country where 21% of the population lives in extreme poverty. The Ugandan government saw the prospect of earning at least $1.5 billion a year and increasing its GDP per capita from $630 to over $1,000. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





In this photo taken Wednesday, December 13, 2017, Jackline Akot, 36, who was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as a teenager and had two children before escaping, stacks the bricks that she and her family make in Laliya Oguru village, near Gulu, in Uganda. (Photo by Adelle Kalakouti/AP Photo)





Gonzaga Yiga, a 49-year-old community chairperson, appeals to residents through a speaker from the tallest building of the area in morning and evening, on how to curb the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kampala, Uganda, on March 24, 2020. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





Women coming from Congo wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spread of infection, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda on Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Saturday, March 7, 2020, a Ugandan woman tries out self-defense during the Mara Mara peace festival in Kampala, Uganda. The festival drew inspiration from the African Union's declaration of 2020 as the year for “silencing the guns” on a continent that has long faced violence ranging from civil war to ethnic rivalries and rebel insurgencies. (Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/AP Photo)





In this photo taken Tuesday, December 12, 2017, former child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and community members make a traditional Acholi dance performance at a music therapy pilot programme in Gulu, Uganda. (Photo by Adelle Kalakouti/AP Photo)





In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, women and children return home with plastic containers of water, in a section of the sprawling complex of mud-brick houses and tents that makes up the Bidi Bidi South Sudanese refugee settlement in northern Uganda. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





A police officer chases street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, on March 26, 2020, after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni directed the public to stay home for 32 days starting March 22, 2020 to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Ugandan authorities have identified 14 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the country. All borders have been closed except for limited goods and authorised emergency flights. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP Photo)





Ugandan police and other security forces chase people off the streets to avoid unrest, after police cleared a stand of motorcycle taxis which are no longer permitted to operate after all public transport was banned for two weeks to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, March 26, 2020. (Photo by Ronald Kabuubi/AP Photo)





In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee girl prepares to lick the last of her corn and soya porridge breakfast from her bowl, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





Students of Makerere university react after being exposed to teargas during their protest against the 15 percent tuition increment in Kampala, Uganda, on October 30, 2019. (Photo by Isaac Kasamani/AFP Photo)





Guests pose prior the 6th Kampala Fashion Week, the annual showcase of fashion brands from East Africa, in Kampala, Uganda, on September 28, 2019. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP Photo)





A Red Cross volunteer measures the temperature of a man before he can enter Nakasero market in Kampala, on April 1, 2020. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on March 30, 2020, ordered an immediate 14-day nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus which has so far infected 33 people in the country. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP Photo)