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The Hometown Shakedown: Your Chance to Help Co-Stop the War in Uganda

Jason Russell | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact


Jason Russell

We at Invisible Children are trying to end Africa's longest running war. This Wednesday, we're meeting members of Congress who haven't yet co-sponsored the bill. This is your chance to help us.

Northern Uganda: The Biggest Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis

Melissa Fitzgerald | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact


Melissa Fitzgerald

As I was leaving an IDP camp, a man said to me, "Please don't let us die in this horrible place. Please tell the people in America what is happening here." I promised myself I would.

PETITION: Get Obama To Commit To Arrest Warlord Joseph Kony

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact


If you haven't yet heard of Invisible Children, you're either not 19 or don't watch Oprah. You are, however, not alone. This youth-oriented organizati...

Lord's Resistance Army Attacks Villages, Kidnaps Children On Sudan-Congo Border (VIDEO)

Doctors Without Borders | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


By Doctors Without Borders With photography and video by photojournalist Brendan Bannon, Doctors Without Borders brings you the underreported story o...

UN Envoy's Term Ends, but Rebels Go On and On

Maria Burnett | Posted 08.14.2009 | World


Maria Burnett

Several members of congress support a bill that would oblige the White House to develop a detailed strategy to protect civilians from the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in east and central Africa.

Stopping One Man to Save Thousands

John Prendergast | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


John Prendergast

For more than two decades, the United States has attempted piecemeal solutions to addressing the scourge of the Lord's Resistance Army.

Africa's Longest War Still Taking Lives

Maria Burnett | Posted 07.20.2009 | World


Maria Burnett

In Congo last December, Human Rights Watch documented how small groups of rebels rounded up civilians in several villages and hacked to death entire families as they gathered for their Christmas meal.

The Invisible Children

Jason Russell | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living


Jason Russell

In April 2003, two weeks before the Iraq war started, two weeks before I traveled to Sudan to document the holocaust, I went to Africa tell a story that mattered. And it changed my life forever.

Ugandan Rebels Rampage In Central Africa, More Than 50 Civilians Killed In Congo And Sudan

The Guardian | Xan Rice | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


Rebels from Uganda's Lord's Resistance army (LRA) have continued their rampage through central Africa, killing more than 50 civilians in south Sudan a...

A Triangle of Human Suffering

Mia Farrow | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


Mia Farrow

As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.

UN Needs to Lead New Uganda Peace Strategy

John Prendergast | Posted 03.30.2009 | World


John Prendergast

The Lord's Resistance Army is creating havoc and abducting children in four countries in central Africa. A new strategy is needed to end the ongoing threat they pose to international peace and security.

Deconstructing Ray Nagin's State of the City Report

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics


Georgianne Nienaber

A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.