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Ugandan Woman Looks For Her Children Lost In Landslide
A woman cries for her four children she lost in a landslide in Bududa, about 250kms east of Uganda capital Kampala Tuesday June 26, 2012. Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda Monday, killing scores of people officials said.…
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Congo Refugee Kids in Uganda
ISINGIRO, Uganda — Refugee children from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sit in front of a tent provided by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Nakivale Refugee Settlement Camp in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro, on March 20, 2012. Decades of gun fire, mass massacres, and rapes…
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‘Nodding Syndrome’ Kills 170 Uganda Children
Children look at their mother Helen Apoto locking their sick brother in the room before she leaves in Pader, Uganda, March 8, 2012. Some parents have to tie the children or else they will wander off and end up drowning in rivers or falling in fire places like some have…
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Uganda Kids Suffer From ‘Nodding Syndrome’
Tony Odong, a 12-year old victim of nodding syndrome, sits in front of his home playing with a dead chicken found nearby in Pader, Uganda, March 8, 2012. The cause of nodding syndrome is not yet known by scientists despite years of research. Ugandan Ministry of health statistics indicate that…
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