COMMENT | Marije Slijkerman & Gerard, Max en Jan Koetsier | On Sunday December 11th Sophia’s TV portrait, as made by Dutch public television, was broadcast in Uganda at 10pm by NTV Uganda, the largest TV network in the country. A short news item was to precede this documentary, serving as …
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NTV Uganda will broadcast Sophia’s film at 10 pm on Sunday 11, 9.20 pm COMMENT | Marije Slijkerman, Gerard, Max en Jan Koetsier | Today, December 7th of 2022, it is 29 years ago that Sophia was born, at home in Amsterdam. A lovely baby who turned from pretty little girl into …
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What happened to Sophia? Sophia Koetsier has a knack for adventure. After her internship at Lubaga Hospital she intended to travel around Uganda before returning home. On day 6 of that trip, October 28, 2015, Sophia went missing in Murchison Falls National Park and has not been seen or …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | In the summer of 2015, Dutch mother Marije Slijkerman would never have imagined that in the very near future she would be making frequent trips to Uganda, an African country she had never been to. That she would be meeting there …
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Where is Sophia? A mother’s cry of despair and her unwavering search for her missing daughter COMMENT | Marije Slijkerman | October 28, 2019, marks four years without Sophia. Our lovely, smart, strong-willed, lively, cheerful, ambitious and beautiful daughter and sister. It is unreal, incomprehensible, unacceptable and unbearable. It is said …
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On Monday August 31, 2015, Sophia Koetsier arrives at Entebbe airport in Uganda. She is 21 years old, bright and ambitious, with a great zest for life, about to embark on a new adventure in a faraway country, on a continent she has never been to. That summer she had acquired …
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