Although rarely talked about, acid attacks are still a common practice in Uganda. More than 90 percent of victims are women who, in addition to living with the physical scars and terror from the attack itself, have to live the rest of their lives facing massive stigma.

Thirty-three year old Gloria Kankunda, a victim herself, has made it her life’s mission to tackle this issue head on.

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Ugandan social worker and activist Victor Ochen has been nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Ochen, who is 33, is the youngest African to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He and the organisation he founded, the African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), were nominated for their work with war victims in northern Uganda.

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Dominic Ongwen, the first LRA indictee, is likely to face a long trial at the International Criminal Court. But his former bush wife, Florence Ayot (35), still hopes that one day he’ll come back so they can be together and take care of their two children.

“I was only nine years old when I was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 1989. In 1996, after my first husband died, I was given to Dominic Ongwen.”

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They were an intimidating bunch of men. About 40 of them, loudly singing unintelligible chants, convinced that nobody and nothing could stand in their way.

That night, as the Netherlands played Cameroon in the World Cup, Cape Town’s Table Mountain was beautifully illuminated. The combination of liquor and arrogance will have fed their sense that they were to become part of a triumph of historical proportions for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.  

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There was this sincere hope that we had seen the end of the so-called ‘tribal reality shows’; that is television programs where groups of westerners spend some time with one of the ‘last remaining’ or ‘authentic tribes’ in the world. Namibia or the South Pacific is a favorite destination. A sort of kitsch version of what National Geographic used to be up to (and what John Marshall used to critique in his films). Every time it’s the same script.

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