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Author: Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss

Kristof Titeca & Anna Reuss

Kristof Titeca is a lecturer at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp. Follow him on twitter at @kristoftiteca. Anna Reuss works as a consultant on politics, conflict and security in East Africa. Follow her on twitter at @reussae.

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    The government’s strategy of lethal retaliation plus patronage has contained the recent violence. It has not resolved it. The Rwenzori region in western Uganda has a ...
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