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Gulu University opened in October 2002 amidst a long-running civil war between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. This was not an ‘enabling environment’ for education. Headlines such as this one from September 19, 2002 make this point clear: “Rebels in northern Uganda raided a village in the district of [...] As reported in the Monitor: [The Ugandan] State House will foot the funeral bills of rebel leader [LRA] Joseph Kony’s mother who died on Tuesday night, Gulu Resident District Commissioner Walter Ochora said yesterday. According to a report by The New Vision, Norah Anek Oting, the mother of Joseph Kony, the #1 enemy [...] One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed. The report, commissioned in May by NRM Secretary General Amama Mbabazi, a copy of which Daily Monitor has seen, indicates that one million out of the 11,066,449 registered voters and more than 5,000 polling [...] The fate of Migingo Island remains unclear. Who is the rightful owner? Kenya? Uganda? In addition to having evidence on their side, Kenya also has popular support. There are currently 785 “fans” of the Migingo is KENYAN page on Facebook. There is also a Migingo for Kenya group (239 members) and a [...] Kenya and Uganda are in a row over a small island on Lake Victoria that lies near their shared border. Jeffrey Gettleman picked up on the dispute in a recent NY Times article. I have disagreed with Gettleman’s descriptions of African affairs in the past, but I think he got Migingo [...] |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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