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With news this week of LRA killings of civilians surging in remote corners of DR Congo, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo applauded the efforts of US activists to secure the passage of the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act and see the violence ended. Activist efforts continued to make historic progress this week, with a supermajority of Senators ...  Read full post

After thousands of us rallied, spoke, wrote, and lobbied for peace this past year, legislation aimed at ending Joseph Kony's reign of terror stands on the precipice of passing Congress.

But as we shared last week, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma - nicknamed "Dr. No" - is using procedural rules in the Senate to single-handedly block the bill's passage, jeopardizing the progress toward ...  Read full post

Today, Resolve Uganda joined its partners in launching an ambitious campaign targeting Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma - aka "Dr. No", the lone Senator blocking Senate passage of the historic LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. As Senator Coburn continued his one-man campaign to prevent the bill from passing, four more Republicans signed on as cosponsors. The Good: Senator Inhofe ...  Read full post

From Invisible Children's blog:

On January 11, 2010, Jason Russell, Laren Poole, and Ben Keesey of Invisible Children traveled to Washington, D.C., to  hand over 253,512 Citizens Arrest Warrant Petition Cards to the State Department. Over the course of three months, Invisible Children had collected these signatures from citizens all around the world.

On each card was ...  Read full post

Enough Project field researcher Ledio Cakaj has released two briefs documenting resurgent LRA violence against civilians in DR Congo and what needs to be done about them.

With the ongoing attacks taking place in extremely remote areas far from the limelight of media and international attention, grave atrocities are going unreported and unnoticed. Cakaj writes about one attack in December ...  Read full post

Senator Inhofe (R-Ok) has continued to be a strong and committed voice within Congress on the issue of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Over the past few years, he has tirelessly called for greater U.S. engagement to end Joseph Kony's campaign of violence and to support LRA-affected communities in central Africa.

Yesterday, Senator Inhofe spoke on the Senate floor, in resolute support ...  Read full post

This is the inaugural post in a series of reflections from Paul Ronan, Director of Advocacy for Resolve Uganda, as he travels for two months in Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic to interview victims of LRA attacks, civil society leaders, and local officials about how LRA violence can be ended and affected communities best assisted. Stay tuned for his ...  Read full post

Even as Senator Tom Coburn continues to obstruct the Senate's passage of the landmark LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, the bill today picked up three new Senate cosponsors and reached a historic milestone. The Act is now cosponsored by a majority of US Senators, and is the most widely-supported Africa related legislation in at least 35 years (as far back as electronic archives ...  Read full post

Before moving on to this week's news, take two minutes right now and vote for our partners at Invisible Children to win $1 million in a facebook competition hosted by Chase Bank. Though they now hold the lead, the second place team is gaining votes fast enough to potentially eclipse Invisible Children before tonight's midnight deadline.

And now, on to the news: This week, after ...  Read full post

A short video released this week by Al Jazeera shows how communities in South Sudan being victimized by LRA attacks are forming self-defense militia groups, as neither their own government nor United Nations peacekeepers in the country have been able to protect them:

These South Sudanese defense groups have counterparts formed in the 1990's in ...  Read full post