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Nothing about Joseph Kony’s early years hinted at the terror he would later unleash in Uganda – and neighbouring countries – for two decades. Born in 1961 into a middle-class family in northern Uganda, Kony joined his father in the Catholic church as an altar boy. At 26, he founded the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Christian fundamentalist rebel outfit killed at least 100,000 people, forced children to be soldiers and sex slaves, and displaced millions. In 2005, an international arrest warrant was issued for Kony and there’s also a US$5 million bounty on his head. Dennis Jjuuko and Tonny Kirabira tell the story of Africa’s most wanted fugitive.
South Africa is the only African country to formally extend refugee protection to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) persons. But there are concerns that people aren’t being properly documented. In turn, this means that there’s a paucity of information about this asylum community. John Marnell, B Camminga and Thea de Gruchy fill this data gap.
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Kagure Gacheche
Commissioning Editor, East Africa
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Dennis Jjuuko, UMass Boston; Tonny Raymond Kirabira, University of Portsmouth
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
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John Marnell, University of the Witwatersrand; B Camminga, University of the Witwatersrand; Thea de Gruchy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Oyewale Tomori, Nigerian Academy of Science
Here’s what Nigeria’s new president should do to elevate science in the country.
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Tanja Bosch, University of Cape Town; Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University
The newspaper confounded critics with its contextually relevant and informative stories.
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Winston Morgan, University of East London; Shazma Bashir, University of East London
Le danger des sirops contre la toux contaminés est que les premiers symptômes d'empoisonnement, comme la somnolence, sont parfois observés chez des enfants non contaminés.
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