Children in Crisis

100 LRA abductees rescued in Central African Republic

This week, Ugandan army forces chasing LRA fighters in Central African Republic rescued approximately 100 civilians abducted by the rebel group ...  Read full post

Posted: September 10th, 2009 by michael

LRA abduct 80 in Congo

Earlier today, we learned that on Tuesday of this week LRA fighters converged on a small town called Bayule in northeastern Democratic Republic ...  Read full post

Posted: July 10th, 2009 by michael

US Military Role in LRA Operation Examined

Today's New York Times features a must-read examination of the US military's involvement in helping plan and execute the ongoing regional ...  Read full post

Posted: February 7th, 2009 by michael

Anti-Genocide Group Says LRA Violence Tops the World's Deadliest

In a post titled 'Even Worse Than We Thought', our colleagues over at Genocide Intervention Network report that the violence carried out against ...  Read full post

Posted: January 30th, 2009 by michael

75,000 people flee their homes in wake of LRA attacks

The BBC is reporting that 75,000 people in northeastern Congo have fled their homes following gruesome attacks carried out by the LRA in the ...  Read full post

Posted: September 25th, 2008 by alison

A special look at the children brutalized by the LRA in the UK's Guardian

A piece ran in the U.K.'s Guardian this morning about some of the children who have been abducted and terrorized as part of the LRA's war against ...  Read full post

Posted: July 17th, 2008 by alison

Today's required reading: New reports of child abductions and a reminder of what's at stake

Two articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer this week remind us of why we cannot give up on peace in northern Uganda.

The first article ...  Read full post

Posted: May 22nd, 2008 by alison
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