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Will Uganda reinstate the heart of the Amnesty Act?
May 22, 2013
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, [...]
Why can’t the UN get funding for its LRA strategy?
May 20, 2013
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 [...]
Report: Sudan’s renewed support to the LRA
April 26, 2013
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.
Behind the scenes: Using satellite imagery to find Kony’s camp
April 26, 2013
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?