For its latest documentary, the BBC Africa Eye took its team to the Northern part of Uganda that’s been rife with cases of teenage pregnancies, sexual violence and incest. According to a report, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, reports of teenage pregnancies in girls aged 10-14 increased by 300%. The Northern region had witnessed an increase in sexual violence and internal displacement of people since it was plagued by two decades of insurgency led by the warlord Joseph Kony.
In the eyewitness report led by Paul Bakibinga at the Gulu Regional Hospital, about 23% of the pregnancies were teenagers and all of them were defiled, either by known faces, family members or in some cases, unidentifiable men in the community.
