Child Sacrifice in Uganda
The Ugandan Police is hunting traditional healers who kidnap children to sacrifice them. And it's fighting against the greed of a new middle class, which rely on magic rituals to get richer.
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Richard Omongole, a Ugandan lawyer and former country director for Amnesty International, is legal adviser to the Gideon Foundation, a small organization that was founded by the father of a child...
Job opportunities were low in Kampala so when a friend offered Paul Odida a job in South Africa the prospect of some money was encouraging. He sold his car, left Kampala on a bus, and headed for...
Marco Vernaschi, for the Pulitzer Center
Katugwe, Uganda
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Pulitzer Center grantee Marco Vernaschi reports on the popularity of child sacrifices among witchdoctors in Uganda.
Pulitzer Center grantee Marco Vernaschi explores the phenomenon of child sacrifices by witchdoctors in Uganda.
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Marco Vernaschi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1973, and he's currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's currently working on a large, long-term project about the phenomenon of child witches,...
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Sebastiano Vitale was born in Turin, Italy in 1975. He has been working for several years in the media world both in experimental web-art and in mainstream production.
In 2009 he launched his long-...