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Uganda: Auto Repair Shop Jump-Starts Ugandan Child Soldiers Into New Lives
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 9 May 2018
As a young boy chasing chickens on his parents' farm in northern Uganda, Louis Lakor dreamed of becoming a teacher. But when he finally set foot in a local primary school, aged… Read more »
Car Repair Shop Jump-Starts Ugandan Child Soldiers Into New Lives
Louis Lakor was abducted in a night raid and forced to become a child soldier with the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, which terrorised northern Uganda for nearly two decades before being driven out of the country by a military offensive in 2005. Now Lakor, 27, is putting the horrors of the bush behind him and helping other ex-child soldiers to learn skills from vehicle repairs and carpentry to tailoring and hairdressing.
Louis Lakor, left, founder of the Baka Youth Training Centre, and Peter Owiny Mwa, nicknamed Baka, Louis' former boss, pose for a photo in Gulu, Northern Uganda, March 29, 2018.
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Uganda: First Kill Your Family - Story of The LRA's Child Soldiers
Monitor, 6 March 2017
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army is yet another publication about the northern Uganda insurgency. Read more »
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Uganda: 'You Belong to Joseph Kony'
African Arguments, 24 January 2017
Testimony from a former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army highlights the moral and human complexity of Ongwen's case at the ICC. Read more »
InFocus
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Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army leader, has fathered many children, reportedly as many as 50, but their exact number is unknown. Daily Monitor 's Esther Oluka explores the ... Read more »
