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by Sue Landau | 17 Dec 2018 | Africa, Climate change, Eyewitness
By Nick Trombola and Frederic Musisi After an intense drought in early 2017 in Amudat, a remote district in northeastern Uganda, the government offered help. More than 2,000 cows had starved, a disaster for the nomadic Karamoja people. “Ninety percent of our community...
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by News Decoder | 13 Dec 2018 | Africa, Climate change, Eyewitness
(All photos by Nick Trombola)By Nick Trombola Three out of four East Africans live in rural areas. For them, water is a necessity, but increasingly scarce. Finding water that is both abundant and drinkable is often a daily chore, especially for herders tending to...
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by News Decoder | 19 Dec 2017 | Africa, Human Rights, Identity, Indiana University, Student Posts, Youth Voices
This story was co-winner in the university division in News-Decoder’s Arch Roberts Jr essay/reporting contest. We will be publishing the other winners in coming days. By Nick Trombola Joseph Kawesi is a transgender woman living in a country where her gender...
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by Barry Moody | 27 Apr 2017 | Africa
By Barry Moody While many African countries have thrown off the painful legacy of colonialism and the disaster stereotypes of the past, Congo remains sadly mired in its dark reputation for horror, violence, corruption and misgovernment. In the decade to 2015, gross...
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by News Decoder | 29 Mar 2016 | Africa
Sruthi Gottipati is a News-Decoder ambassador and last year was featured in a snapshot profile. This article was originally published on The Development Set on Medium. By Sruthi Gottipati A group of villagers marched into their local health clinic in central Uganda...
