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? Eight year old girl, Caroline Aya went missing right outside her house when her neighbor kidnapped her. Few days later, what was feared happened when her body was found with her tongue cut. The kid bled to death. A gory ritual in Uganda where humans especially children are sacrificed is on the rise. In 2007, three cases were reported. However, last [...]

The war in Congo has been going on for a decade and a half. The conflict has many causes, among them the collapse of the kleptocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. A case of an abandoned former Cold War ally of the United States, his fall led to a government that was not able to control vast areas of the country. This brought about the rise in many [...]

New colonialism in a globalized world is a curious thing. Countries buying vast parcels of farmlands in poor countries poses new emerging problems. In such cases, only the countries’ respective heads of state know the full details. It gets complicated when provincial governors have auctioned off their land to the highest international bidders such [...]

The popular image of the US capital is that of a monumental and historic city, the bastion of US democracy, and a place of law and order. Behind the scenes in urban Washington, however, District of Columbia offers a little less pleasant scenario. The seat of the federal government, with a population of approximately 600,000 people of which 55 percent [...]

Katine is a tranquil pastoral county in northeastern Uganda. The only way of life in this village is farming. Their entire livelihood involves cattle. In the 1990s, a semi-nomadic tribe came down from the hills and stole the cattle. This posed a bigger difficulty for the women of the village since they do most of the farming. As in most rural agricultural [...]