Rebecca Amuge Otengo

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Rebecca Amuge Otengo (born April 26, 1966) is a Ugandan politician. As of 2017, she was appointed as Uganda's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti with residence in Addis Ababa. This position also makes her Uganda's Permanent Representative to the African Union (AU), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) as well as UNECA. She is the former State Minister for Northern Uganda in the Cabinet of Uganda. She was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. Rebecca Amuge was an elected Member of Parliament as Alebtong District Women's Representative.

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• It’s a total lie to say government has marginalized northern Uganda because we have programs like peace recovery and development plan,Northern Uganda social action funds and agricultural live good recovery program which is not there in other districts
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• There are learned people and they should help our community to come out of the bad situation but not to mislead them on secession story
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• although the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency devastated the north, the government has spared no effort to put socioeconomic transformation back on track.
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• the report needed to make more contextualized and nuanced arguments about the north
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