The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is spreading violence across South Sudan and other countries in central Africa. Here South Sudanese children cry at the funeral of Gabriel Makana, who was ambushed by the LRA and his body was mutilated. Makana was a popular employee in South Sudan’s ministry of education who brought schools to rural areas.
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