Rachel Rinaldo
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/ 27 September 2004

Uganda: Amnesty via the airwaves

His left leg missing, Jackson Acama stands uneasily on crutches. At 42, he is one of the oldest former rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army to have taken up residence at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu, northern Uganda. By Acama’s own account, he was a major in the notorious guerilla movement. e Acama, many ex-rebels say they heard about the amnesty on the radio, especially Gulu’s Mega FM.

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/ 30 July 2004

The new face of Aids in Uganda

The women of the Kawempe Positive Women’s Union are among the new faces of the HIV/Aids epidemic in Uganda. The recent Aids conference in Bangkok, Thailand, shed light on the growing feminisation of HIV: 57% of those infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women. And 75% of the young people infected are females aged 15 to 24.

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/ 6 April 2004

Female genocide survivors face grim realities

Of the 12 people in her immediate family, only Mamerthe Karuhimbi and her mother survived the Rwandan genocide. But 10 years later she has little hope for her future. ”I have no life because I don’t have a family or children,” Karuhumbi says. Her words are echoed by Elizabeth Onyango, programme coordinator for African Rights — an NGO based in Kigali and London.

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/ 18 February 2004

A price above rubies

”We are going to shout about bride price across Africa and we are going to say ‘no’ to the sale of women,” exclaimed Atuki Turner to a crowded hall at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Turner was speaking at the opening this week of the first international conference on the tradition of bride price.