Is Africa’s longest war finally ending?

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Uganda

Uganda may finally end its civil war, said Kenya’s Standard in an editorial. After 20 years, the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, have reached a truce, under which the rebels will receive amnesty. It’s not a perfect agreement. Under Joseph Kony, who considers himself God’s personal representative on Earth, the LRA has committed countless atrocities—including, many say, cannibalism. Most of its fighters are children, abducted from their villages in the thousands. Mothers who protested had their lips, ears, or even breasts cut off. Yet the Ugandan army, too, has logged its share of abuses, “flattening villages in the name of destroying rebel hide-outs.” Over the course of the war, more than 2 million people were driven from their homes, ending up in squalid camps where rape, disease, and hunger are endemic.

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