Global News by Tag: War
GULU, UGANDA – Gloria Acen, 23, smiles, exposing her black gums that contrast her well-set white teeth. Acen, a former prostitute, says rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, which began a two-decade insurgency in northern Uganda in the late 1980s, abducted her when she was 13. She says she eventually escaped but had to become a prostitute to support herself and her siblings.
NAIROBI, KENYA – Mukhtar Bashir Mudey, a Somali refugee and artist living in Kenya, says it wasn’t safe to practice his craft in his homeland.
“Art is dangerous in Somalia,” he says.
Mudey says al-Shabab, an Islamic militant group in Somalia, maintains that art is a sin and that artists will have to breathe life into every drawing on Judgment Day.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA -- Yasmina Muhiddin is just six years old. Her face may not betray her age, but her little frame has endured more than its share of pain.
A few months ago, Muhiddin was outside playing with her friends in front of her home. The kids could hear gunshots from a distance, but that is a regular occurrence here. The kids were undeterred and continued playing.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Kapinga Bennedict, 25, is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
Bennedict fled her country in 2007 after at attack by Congolese rebels that left her raped, her mother dead and her sister disappeared.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL -- It was 8:30 a.m. on May 14, 2007 when Sunita Ghale, 21, and five friends went into the forest near their village to collect mushrooms for their families’ dinners.