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Patricia lives in Kalongo, a small remote village in Acholi land, Northern Uganda. Every day this trainee midwife is learning how to accompany new mothers through the physical and emotional intensity of giving birth.
In Uganda homosexuals fear for their lives. And in recent months laws were proposed which would introduce the death penalty for gays and lesbians. For now the legislation has been shelved but for how long?
Inmates of Luzira Prison in Kampala are literally singing for their lives. This choir of death row prisoners has recorded a unique album of songs to publicize their fight against capital punishment.
Iconic species are not the only remnants of Ugandan heritage threatened with extinction. The forests hold one of the last populations of mountain gorillas, but are also the home of 6000 pygmies. New foreign-funded legislation is evicting the pygmies from the forest in favour of gorilla conservation, but the people of this unique culture are reluctant to lose their heritage.
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In 2005, Idi Amin returned to Uganda in the form of actor Forest Whitaker, who's starring in the movie 'The Last King of Scotland'. The film is a thriller set in Amin's Uganda and tells the story of a fictional Scottish doctor who becomes the dictator's closest advisor. But making a movie about such a controversial figure raises a number of questions. Is it possible to separate the real Idi Amin …
Since 1986, northern Uganda has been devastated by the rebel insurgency of the Lords Resistance Army. More than a million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes and resettled in camps where they remain dependent on food aid and at the mercy of the rebels.
Africa suffers millions of preventable deaths. The price of drugs to cure or allay the symptoms of diseases such as AIDS and sleeping sickness are simply unaffordable for anyone living in poverty.
As the tribes are moved out, and the gorillas move in, tensions begin to rise in the Ugandan mountains. Recent murders of eight foreigners may cripple tourism.
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