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Over 21,000 abducted by LRA

    NAIROBI
    More than 21,000 people, including over 6,000 children, have been abducted by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda over the past 13 years, UNICEF said. “There are another 2,000 children whose names are yet to be verified by UNICEF. The figure of abducted children could therefore rise to 8,000,” a UNICEF official in Kampala told IRIN on Thursday.

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