Uganda
After a decade of Ugandan military operations to disarm rival clans, the country's Karamoja region has become more secure. Now development experts hope it can become self-sufficient.
Jackee Batanda, the 2011-12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, visited the Pulitzer Center to talk about her experience as a journalist in Uganda.
In the Karamoja region of Uganda, villages say an army security crackdown on cattle raiding has led to incidents of brutal torture.
Following the Ugandan government's ferocious disarmament campaign against the Karamojong, what does the future hold for this tribe of warrior nomads?
After years of begging and abuse on the streets of Kampala, Emmanuel Lokwii, 13, is back home in Karamoja.
Soothsayer Naithan Namuga once earned money sending young men off on deadly cattle raids- now he says he's promoting peace and curing petty ailments. But with life a struggle, that could change.
The Ugandan People's Defense Force uses "cordon and search" operations to prevent violent cattle raids among the tribes of Uganda's Karamoja region.
Part of a decade-long campaign across Karamoja to recover illegal weapons and put an end to violent cattle raids, the Ugandan army's recent push to disarm the Pokot has been mired by allegations of...
After losing their cattle and livelihoods to raids and drought, many Karamojong have turned to subsistence mining to make a living.
In Karamoja, regular "cordon and search" disarmament operations carried out by the military raise questions about allegations of torture and violence.
On the slopes of Mount Moroto in the remote northeastern corner of Uganda, members of the Karamojong tribe, including children, mine for gold in the parched red earth.
Uganda’s Karamoja region, home to tribes of cattle-herding, Kalashnikov-wielding nomads, has been trapped in a cycle of violence and poverty for generations.
The Ugandan government may have succeeded in their disarmament campaigns against former warriors, but what can they offer them instead? The warriors' futures hang in the balance.