New beginnings

Featured in Toronto Star, 8 September 2012.

In the summer of 2011 Vancouver-based photojournalist Marc Ellison interviewed 40 formerly abducted women in Uganda about their post-abduction difficulties. As a part of the project, Ellison gave five of the women digital…

Let them come out

Colonel Joseph Balikuddembe is not a man to be envied.

But for a man charged with hunting down one of Africa’s most wanted, the Lord Resistance Army’s Joseph Kony, the Ugandan colonel seems disconcertingly at ease. He sits under a…

O God, you know what I was

So began Jennifer’s prayer.

We are sat in her small, dimly lit tukul in Gulu with heads bowed, thunder rumbling in the distance a reminder that the rainy season is upon us. Her children play outside, the wind whipping up…

How do you reconcile the two sides of Alice?

The article in many ways felt like a book end, a final closing chapter on the research I did in Uganda last summer.

The piece, which was featured last weekend as part of the Toronto Star’s Childhood Interrupted series,…

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In the last 8 weeks I’ve interviewed 40 formerly abducted women in northern Uganda about their post-conflict lives.

Women like Janet, Christine, Mary, Jennifer and Alice.

Their lives will never be quite the same after their time in the…

It is alleged that you, and those still at large…

So began each of the 65 charges, read by the presiding judge, in the case against former LRA commander Thomas Kwoyelo.

These charges took over three hours to detail in a stifling Gulu courtroom.

The trial came three years after…