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• Crisis Tracker: Cyclical increase in attacks, but LRA releases 28 captives

  Today we released the LRA Crisis Tracker January – March 2013 Quarterly Security Brief, which analyzes patterns in LRA activity in the first three months of the year. Key trends in LRA activity, highlighted in the report’s Executive Summary, are reproduced above. The full report, available here, includes maps of LRA attacks and additional analysis on people who [...] Posted June 7, 2013 by Paul in From the Team

• 5 questions on the LRA and poaching

   Today we partnered with the Enough Project and Invisible Children to release Kony’s Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Helps Support the Lord’s Resistance Army. Jonathan Hutson and Kasper Agger at Enough Project authored the report, and we provided some of the research material. I’ve asked our researcher Paul Ronan to share the key takeaways [...] Posted June 3, 2013 by Paul in From the Team

• Amnesty: More than a certificate

    Last week we highlighted calls from Ugandan (and international) civil society groups urging the Ugandan government to reinstate the amnesty provisions stripped out of Uganda’s Amnesty Act in May 2012. Encouragingly, Ugandan officials actually listened and reinstated the amnesty provisions. (See a joint civil society statement welcoming the move below). Crucially, the reinstatement gives [...] Posted May 30, 2013 by Paul in From the Team

• Will Uganda reinstate the heart of the Amnesty Act?

  Just over a year ago I wrote a post arguing that the Ugandan government should renew the country’s Amnesty Act because it was crucial to encouraging members of the LRA to peacefully return home. I guess Ugandan ministers don’t read our blog very closely, because a few weeks later the Ugandan government gutted the Act, [...] Posted May 22, 2013 by Paul in From the Team
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  Why can’t the UN get funding for its LRA strategy?

  In June 2012, to great fanfare, the UN Secretary General released a UN regional strategy on the LRA. The strategy was designed to help coordinate and improve the counter-LRA efforts of the alphabet soup of UN agencies, peacekeeping missions, and senior officials working on the crisis. For donors and civil society groups, one particular hope [...] Posted May 20, 2013 by Paul in From the Team
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  Report: Sudan’s renewed support to the LRA

  Our new report shows that for the last four years the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) allowed LRA fighters – including Joseph Kony himself – to periodically use the Kafia Kingi enclave as a safe haven from which to avoid pursuing troops. Posted April 26, 2013 by Paul in News & Analysis
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  Behind the scenes: Using satellite imagery to find Kony’s camp

  More details on our recent "Hidden In Plain Sight" report. How did we locate the camp? Why are we confident it is actually the LRA's camp, where Kony is thought to have resided? And how did we get the imagery? Posted by Michael in News & Analysis
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  Q&A on new rewards for Kony & Co

  Earlier today, the State Department announced that LRA leaders Joseph Kony, Dominic Ongwen, and Okot Odhiambio were being added to the US War Crimes Rewards (WCR) program. Posted April 3, 2013 by Michael in News & Analysis
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  The high stakes of withdrawal

  The Resolve joined local organizations in urging Uganda and the US to stay committed in the fight to stop LRA violence. Posted April 2, 2013 by Michael in From the Team | News & Analysis
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  Counter-LRA operations suspended

  US and Ugandan counter-LRA efforts have been suspended due to upheaval in the Central African Republic. Posted March 28, 2013 by Michael in News & Analysis
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  28 released from LRA captivity

  On March 21, we heard the great news that 28 women and children were released from LRA captivity. Posted by admin in From the Team
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  Could upheaval in CAR spell the end for operations against the LRA?

  A violent change of government that took place in the Central African Republic over the weekend could lead to the withdrawal of Ugandan and US forces working to track down the LRA, with potentially devastating consequences. Posted March 26, 2013 by Michael in News & Analysis