Arua District
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Arua is a district in northwestern Uganda. Like other Ugandan districts, it shares its name with its administrative center, Arua town. Located in a corner of the country that borders both Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a significant amount of local economic activity is the result of cross-border trade. The district is the birthplace of former President Idi Amin. The district was a springboard for some units of the Uganda People's Defence Force who entered the DRC at the beginning of the Second Congo War.
Arua District got its name from Arua town. In the late 1970's the Ugandan president at the time Godfrey Binaisa declared that all districts/ provinces acquire their names from their regional capital so that is how Arua district inherited the name from Arua town.
The district was originally made up of counties such as Aringa which later split to become Yumbe District....
Arua is a peaceful district save for the disruption caused in the late ’90s by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels on the Karuma-Pakwach road that provides the main road link into the district.
Its counties include Madi-Okollo. In 2005, the northeastern part of the district was split off as a separate, new district of Koboko.
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