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DR Congo's Lubanga found guilty by the ICC

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The ICC convicts one rebel chief for pushing children into war, but another is still on the run. We look at how a viral video just might help bring Ugandan Joseph Kony to justice. Next, one year after the brutal conflict in Ivory Coast, investigators head to Duékoué in search of mass graves. Finally, violence in northern Mali is forcing more and more Westerners to flee- we meet the the last remaining Frenchman in Timbuktu.

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