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Grace Matsiko

Uganda - Correspondent

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Grace Matsiko is a veteran journalist with 26 years experience having covered the armed conflicts in Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, DR Congo, Burundi, Central African Republic and Somalia. His area of interest is investigative journalism with focus on security, defence, justice and politics. He has worked with leading international news networks such as Agence France Press (AFP) since 2006.

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Thomas Kwoyelo finally convicted after 15 years in prison. The Judgment was pronounced on August 13, 2024 in Uganda.
Kwoyelo’s conviction, at long last
27 August 2024 by Grace Matsiko
More than 15 years after his arrest, Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army former rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty by a Ugandan court of 44 counts of atrocity crimes on August 13. More time is required for his sentencing.
Julia Sebutinde, from Uganda, is a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: official portrait of Sebutinde at the ICJ. Who is Julia Sebutinde, the ICJ judge who says “no”?
23 July 2024 by Grace Matsiko
In 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has taken three landmark decisions to protect the Palestinian population, including warning Israel against the risk of being accused of genocide. In each of these decisions, alone [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one”
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child. “Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”
6 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko
“I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the [...]
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Thomas Kwoyelo's trial in Uganda - He appears on video on television during a hearing he is unable to attend.
5 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo Sitting some 300 km away in a high security prison in Kampala, former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel Thomas Kwoyelo appeared via video link on January 19 before Uganda’s International Crimes Division. It had organized anothe [...]
Total Energies oil project in Uganda - Environmental activists demonstrate in Kampala against EACOP.
15 December 2023 by Grace Matsiko
Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial While the Cop28 negotiations were taking place in the sumptuous halls of Dubai, no less than 42 families from Uganda's oil-rich regions were expropriated from their homes on a Friday afternoon, in an expeditious court hearing. To [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo in Ouganda
4 April 2022 by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: Kwoyelo, 13 years in custody without trial  Uganda holds the lamentable world record for the longest pre-trial detention in an international crimes trial. Thomas Kwoyelo, a former colonel in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, has been in jail for thirteen years. His trial fo [...]
17 December 2020 by Grace Matsiko
ICC Trust Fund: "A good day today is better than a bad day tomorrow" (Uganda) ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 4 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has fun [...]
9 March 2020 by Grace Matsiko
12 years on, Uganda’s International Crimes Division has little to show While the International Criminal Court hears this week the closing arguments in the trial of former Ugandan LRA rebel Dominic Ongwen, the trial of LRA Thomas Kwoyelo is announced to resume today in Uganda, following years of frust [...]
22 October 2019 by Grace Matsiko and Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC/Uganda: “Ongwen was and still is a victim,” says lawyer For the past year, Ugandan Dominic Ongwen has been presenting his defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, more than 50 witnesses have testified in the defence of the former Lord's Resistance Army brigade co [...]
20 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo Trial: Frustration on all sides The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of Uganda’s rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been adjourned to February 2019, only two days after it started. This has caused unease among the victims of the two-decade a [...]
13 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
LRA’s victims: “We ask those handling this case not to delay it again” The trial of the former operations commander of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo begun on November 12 in the country’s Northern town of Gulu, once the epicenter of the group’s armed activit [...]