A senior Ugandan government official yesterday threatened to forcibly return Karamajong from the capital city of Kampala to their home region in northwestern Uganda. Chronic insecurity, drought and underdevelopment in Karamoja have forced many Karamajong to flee their homes and take up tenuous residency in Kampala. However, the threat of expulsion glosses over the partial responsibility of the Ugandan military for insecurity in Karamoja – and raises the question of whether the government is less concerned with well-being of its most marginalized than it is with presenting a sanitized self-image when world leaders converge on Kampala for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November. Read more at The New Vision.