Patience Akumu

Patience Akumu is a Features writer with the Observer newspaper in Uganda. She is the winner of the David Astor Journalism Award 2013 and is on a fellowship programme with The Independent. She was nominated for her work on human rights, ranging from women’s rights to lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony (AFP)

Joseph Kony’s child army and the ivory trade that pays its bills

Unlikely threat: oil in the reserves

Political posters by the anonymous Syrian artists poster collective Alshaab alsori aref tarekh ('The Syrian People Know Their Way). An image of Assad on a Wanted-style poster

The hopes of Syria's protests shine through in new Hackney art

British theatre producer David Cecil waving from a court cell at the Makindye Court on September 13, 2012 in Kampala, after being arrested for staging a play about a gay man despite a temporary ban by the country's media authorities

Thrown out of Africa for staging a gay play – but desperate to

Julian Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's west London embassy for almost a year

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange prepared to stay in Ecuador embassy

The manhunt for Sejusa has been seized upon by opponents of the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, pictured, who has received extensive political and financial support from various British governments

General wanted over Ugandan memo leak now hiding in Britain

People attend an impassioned debate on the civil union bill conducted in English, Zulu and Sotho, in Soweto 20 September 2006.

The African revolution begins with gay rights

An adult male elephant looks up at a helicopter in a remote area of South Sudan, where the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in partnership with South Sudan's Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism is attaching GPS-satellite collars to elephants

Illegal ivory trade 'funding Lord's Resistance Army rebels'

Coffins containing remains from a mass grave in Nyamirambo, Rwanda

Men facing extradition over Rwandan genocide face 'most serious