The US and Uganda called off their six-year hunt for warlord Joseph Kony, triggering concerns that the splintered Lord’s Resistance Army could regroup, plunging communities into renewed violence. Hannah Summers charted the course of the fugitive’s rise in a gallery of images, The fruitless quest for Kony, revealing the terror and suffering he and his army wreaked in Uganda and beyond.
Elsewhere
Mexico’s lost generation of young girls robbed of innocence and education
Tories’ ‘imperial vision’ for post-Brexit trade branded disruptive and deluded
MPs call on Priti Patel to increase UK aid spending on ‘global learning crisis’
Aid agencies accuse Nepal government of hampering their work
Welsh schoolgirl taken to Saudi against her will had warned school, charity says
World Health Organization hails major progress on tackling tropical diseases
UN condemns ‘grotesque rape chants’ of Burundi youth militia
‘Horrific’ levels of child abuse in unsafe refugee camps
Anti-terrorism laws have ‘chilling effect’ on vital aid deliveries to Somalia
In depth
‘I am a criminal. What is my crime?’: the human toll of abortion in Afghanistan
Campaigners refuse to throw in the towel over India’s ‘tax on blood’
Radio Monsoon aims to ensure safety reigns among fishermen in south India
Matt Damon: ‘Children are drinking water so dirty it looks like chocolate milk’
Opinion
Kevin Watkins: Why should Somalia’s children starve to pay for a debt crisis they didn’t create?
Members of the Pariri Indigenous Association and Ipereğ Ayũ Movement: A government of death is plundering our ancient Munduruku lands. Help us stop it
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick: Cruelty or keeping it in the family? What I learned from India’s slaveholders
Multimedia
How do you solve half a century of bloodshed in Colombia? – podcast
What you said
On Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick’s piece about India’s slaveholders, Paul Baker wrote:
The caste system and the class system are joined at the hip. People accustomed to privilege never want change or human rights for all because they have something to lose.
Top tweet
New digital campaign #lahukalagaan in India goes viral to stop taxing on female hygiene products #mensuration https://t.co/ayWxD0RgtO
— Womankind Worldwide (@woman_kind) May 1, 2017
Highlight from the blogosphere
For Humanosphere, Lisa Nikolau reports on a census in Mexico’s southern state of Veracruz, which has revealed that 80% of people within its indigenous community live in extreme poverty, a rate that continues to rise.
And finally
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