Cattle price dictating marriages spark Karamoja clashes
In Karamoja Uganda the price of a girl equals 75 cows as drought and cattle raids feed a cycle of tribal feuds. Police and security forces patrol the region while President Obote seeks to quell escalating violence across Karamojong clans and neighboring tribes in Kenya and Sudan.
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Mrs. Margaret Medders testified in a Sherman bankruptcy proceeding that she and her husband believed a $130000 loan could have saved their 18 acre Colonial Acres farm from foreclosure. Banks refused the loan and Medders, an ex bank employee, had drawn funds from religious orders in a prior role as a parish worker.
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