Ndoromo is a city in the northeastern regions of the Haut-Uele Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, adjacent to the border with South Sudan.

Those refugees who didn't want to return to a war zone Sudan had to seek refuge again, this time in the Central African Republic.

have fallen victims to Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killing of civilians, house burning, and rape.

This, in turn, has caused panic and sparked residents to seek refuge in the bush, a phenomenon exemplified in towns like Dungu and Ndoromo, or even farther south.

Since the end of December 2008, the LRA has come closer to Ndoromo, and its strategy shifted from the plunder of villages to kidnapping 11- to 17-year-old children to enlist as child-soldiers, to the mere massacre of local populations.