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By Patrick Onen | The Associated Press Ugandan youths perform an amateur wrestling tangle in the soft mud in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, March. 20, 2023.
Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small East African nation that has absorbed thousands of refugees from unsettled neighbors. Twagirayesu’s family has grown from two children when they arrived more than a decade ago to eight now, a boon for…
A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday began burying the victims of a brutal attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that left 42 people dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo. (June 19) (AP/Patrick Onen)
The burning of charcoal is now restricted business across northern Uganda amid a wave of resentment by locals who have warned of the threat of climate change stemming from the uncontrolled felling of trees by outsiders. The ban is disrupting a national trade that has long been influenced by cultural sensibilities as much as the seeming abundance of idle land. (June 11) (AP Video: Patrick Onen. Produced by: Joshua Bickel)
Uganda’s president has signed into law new anti-gay legislation that prescribes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” (AP video: Patrick Onen)