Grace Matsiko

Uganda

Correspondent

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.

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.

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“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”

“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 former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel arrested in 2008 has suffered a triple punishment: seeing […]

By Grace Matsiko (our special envoy in Acut Cama Ceri, Uganda)