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Hello and welcome to News are from the BBC World Service coming to you live from from our studios in central London.
I'm Julian Marshall and we begin today with the sentencing of a former commander in a notorious Ugandan rebel group, the first to be convicted by a Ugandan court.
The Lord's Resistance army under its leader Joseph Kony, an indicted war criminal, abducted, mutilated, raped and killed tens of thousands of civilians in a reign of terror that ended in 2006, but not before it had spread from Uganda to Sudan, the Democratic Republic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
It's still deemed a terror group by the UN and Western government.
Senior members of the group at Noconia being captured and one was convicted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague three years ago.
Former LRA commander Thomas Coyello was found guilty in August of charges including rape, mutilation, murder and forcibly recruiting child soldiers.
Today a judge in Uganda handed down a 40 year prison sentence where both boys and girls were abducted by the rebel group, the girls to work as sex slaves.
Victoria Nyanjuro was one of those children taken from a college in Aboke in northern uganda along with 29 of her schoolmates in 1996.
By the time she managed to escape after eight years in captivity, she had two children.
This is part of her story.
I was 14 at the time of abduction.