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Sowing Peanuts and Reaping Remnants of War in Uganda

Patrick Ogik unearths a spent mortar cartridge while plowing his fields near a former army barracks in Paicho, Uganda, March 26, 2018. Northern Uganda still bears the scars of the decades-long conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government. “We could do very little farming because you would get so little time in the field because it wasn’t safe,” Ogik recalled. (Kassie Bracken/The New York Times)