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Uganda poll reflects Africa’s fragile democracy
If nations continue with election malpractices, it is only a matter of time before they face the same fate as Libya and Sudan
Northern Uganda awaits final peace
Peace is about to break out across war-torn northern Uganda, with a formal accord making it official expected to be signed on March 28. Many people here are already looking to a…
Brutal Ugandan rebels ask for forgiveness
Five years ago, Ugandan rebels bayoneted Ellen Atim’s husband and five of her children to death. Atim narrowly escaped and fled with her surviving children to a displacement camp…
Ugandans in war-torn north lose faith in peace
Nursing her infant on a dusty pavement outside her printing shop in war-weary Gulu, Mary Amito says she isn’t convinced the recent talk of peace for northern Uganda will mean the…
Ugandan rebels abandon bush under landmark truce
Bands of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels trekked out of hideouts in northern Uganda on Monday, officials said, raising hopes that a landmark truce could signal an end to years of…
Portrait of Uganda’s rebel prophet, painted by wives
His rebel group is one of world’s most notorious, reviled for an incongruous mix of religion and brutality, but Joseph Kony, the chief of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, is a…
Uganda’s heart of darkness
One-by-one the words, bizarre and horrific, spout from the mouth of Alice as she recounts the terror and abuse she suffered as a child slave for Uganda’s notorious Lord’s…
War-torn Uganda shrugs at referendum
Far from the capital where the merits of democracy are debated in earnest, the impoverished residents of war-ravaged northern Uganda see little point in this week’s referendum on…
‘This war will never end’
Terecina Ayo remembers the night rebel fighters attacked, hacking to death her 12-year-old nephew and 13-year-old niece, abducting other villagers and torching thatched huts. The…
Africa’s forgotten war
Margaret Okello was nine months pregnant when soldiers from the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army came into her village outside the Northern Ugandan town of Gulu. They dragged her…
Is the road to hell paved with good intentions?
Walking in the eerie darkness engulfing Noah’s Ark, a centre that children in northern Uganda escape to for fear of being kidnapped by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), it…
Spare Uganda’s women and children, UN urges
Uganda’s government must do what it can to protect children and women from violence, while the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army must immediately and unconditionally stop abducting,…
Radio programme reaches out to rebels
Johny Lacambel, a local radio presenter, offers his two guests some soda before asking the tall dark male with an amputated limb to lead in prayers as the programme begins. The…
Uganda death toll exceed 300
Investigations by leaders in northern Uganda’s Lira District have found that the death toll in the February 21 rebel attack on the Barlonyo camp for internally displaced persons…
Refugee camps in Uganda ‘have outlived usefulness’
Relief agencies working in northern Uganda on Thursday urged the government to dismantle camps housing displaced persons, saying they lacked adequate security.