The Karamoja Apalis occurs in northern Uganda's mountains. A 2019 survey in northeastern Uganda recorded its gray-and-white plumage and insects taken from acacia.
Survey birds in northeastern Uganda were mostly gray, with a pale eyebrow, a black loral spot, white underparts, and white flashes in the wings and tail.
The survey recorded it taking insects from Whistling-thorn Acacia in seasonally flooded acacia woodland in northeastern Uganda.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.