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After 16 years of instability and sporadic internal conflict in Uganda, this year so far has seen political and social gains that have reduced the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance fall from 1.1 million to around 717,000 - a reduction of 35 percent, according to the latest United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) situation update.