President Bush meets with Ugandan president to discuss LRA

President Bush, who was at the United Nations on Tuesday for the opening of the General Assembly, held an emergency meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to discuss the LRA, according to the Associated Press.

"On the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Bush attended a meeting on food security, had lunch with a group of political dissidents and met with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni — a meeting that the White House said was added at the last minute to discuss the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony, who has led a brutal 21-year insurgency in northern Uganda."

This is an encouraging sign that the President is now paying attention to this crisis that was ignored by the U.S. Government for far too long and is a testament to people across the country who have worked to pressure our leaders to take action on this issue.

The meeting came after a string of LRA attacks in Congo and Sudan last week in which 90 kids were kidnapped and that caused 75,000 people to flee their homes.

To read about what President Bush can specifically do to help achieve peace, click here to read our recent memo to U.S. policymakers about the crisis.