15 years later, the still open wounds of the civil war in Uganda

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Beatrice, kidnapped as a child by the LRA, has to move constantly because she cannot pay her rent.

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By: Lucie Mouillaud Follow

21 mins

15 years after the civil war in northern Uganda, the consequences of the conflict are still there.

Poverty, trauma, divisions within communities, the violence committed for nearly 20 years by the rebels of the LRA of Joseph Kony still deeply mark the survivors of the war.

Survivors, who despite the memories of this brutal past still anchored in their memory, try as best they can to rebuild themselves. 

• Uganda