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Uganda: LRA commander jailed

Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

Former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen has been jailed for 25 years by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, after being convicted of 61 of the 70 charges he faced. He was found guilty of crimes including murder, rape and sexual enslavement in northern Uganda.

Plus, Ethiopia’s Education Minister Getahun Mekuriya tells us how the government wants to transform its education system using blockchain technology.

And our weekly Letter From Africa comes from Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy.

(Photo: Dominic Ongwen in court at the ICC; Credit: Getty Images)

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27 minutes