Moyo

Moyo is a district in northern Uganda. Like other Ugandan districts, it is named after its 'chief town'. The districts of Adjumani and Arua lie to the south across waters of the White Nile, while Yumbe district is to the west. The Sudanese state of Bahr al Ghazal forms the northern border, and a road runs from Moyo town to the town of Kajo-keji. In recent years the district has stagnated in isolation as the Second Sudanese Civil War raged to the north and the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army made the direct road south to the national capitol of Kampala perilous. The district has hosted a large number of Sudanese refugees who fled the fighting in the south of their country. The 2005 Sudanese peace agreement and reduced activities of the LRA has raised hopes that Moyo will again become the prosperous transit area for cross-border trade that it once was.