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Land battles, balalo invasion worry Acholi leaders

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A decade and half after insurgency ended in Acholi with the defeat of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA rebels, lasting peace is still being threatened by growing fights over land and the suspicious influx of ‘balalo’ with their unimmunized herds. The post-conflict region is being …

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Flee or die: The cruel choice in jihad-hit Burkina Faso

Yagma, Burkina Faso | AFP |  “We have nothing,” says Belen Boureima, a 74-year-old farmer, as his weathered face contemplates the scrap of land in the remote village he and his family must now call home. “But it’s better to be alive here than to stay in Djibo and die.” …

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