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Nine Ugandan students die in a dormitory fire
Three students are in custody on suspicion of starting the fire.
Three students are in custody in southern Uganda on suspicion of starting a school dormitory fire that killed at least nine children and injured 40. The UN highlights the plight of millions of so-called stateless people, with no nationality and no citizens rights. And Nigerian writer Sylvia Ofili talks of some of the themes in her novel German Calendar, No December.
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