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Rachel Rinaldo
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…
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…
Condoms take back seat to abstinence with US money
Uganda will receive more than $90-million in Aids funds this year from the United States. But activists fear Washington may be showing too great a preference for abstinence-based…
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…
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…