Amid relative calm, a blackmarket for guns is thriving in disarmed Karamoja

A mixed herd of cattle and sheep. The Karamoja believe God has assigned all the cattle in the world to them. Photo/FILE

The land is vast, stretching as far as the eye can see. Even though darkness is setting in, clusters of manyattas are still visible from a distance.

These modest homesteads built from mad and wattle belong to the Karimojong, a Nilotic pastoral people of northeastern Uganda.