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Erin Levin: With Open Arms: How a Congolese Refugee and a Few Hard Working Texas Moms Are Bringing the World Together

2012-05-16T18:05:00Z

Odile is a refugee. Leslie is an entrepreneur. These two women from extremely different backgrounds now work together. They up-cycle T-shirts headed to the landfill into trendy skirts and scarves.

Read more: Texas, Creative Visions Foundation, Shopping, Social Entrepreneurship, Austin, Africa, Uganda, Congo, Job Creation, Refugees, Good News News

David Isenberg: Maybe This Is Why the PMSC Industry Is Supposedly Cost-Effective

2012-05-15T17:18:12Z

The article recounts how private security firms won lucrative contracts to supply support staff and security guards to back up U.S. forces in Iraq. The firms recruited Ugandans and pushed them to the limit, on low pay and no benefits.

Read more: Private Military Security Contractors, Uganda, Iraq, Soc-Smg, Business News

Top Kony Commander Captured

2012-05-13T10:13:48Z

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-C...

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Joseph Kony Reportedly On The Move As Manhunt Steps Up

2012-05-11T13:51:00Z

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (Reuters) - Fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony is constantly changing his hideouts as th...

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Fatima Muneer: The Kony 2012 Controversy: A Look at Its Coverage in American Media vs. Ugandan Media

2012-05-10T16:34:44Z

Prominent Ugandan journalists and activists were vehemently critical of the video's factual flaws and oversimplification.

Read more: Norbert Mao, Javie Ssozie, Kony 2012, Uganda, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, World News

Stephanie Rudat: Taking Stock and Saving Lives: How an m-Health Initiative Is Revolutionizing Health Care in Uganda

2012-05-08T18:11:32Z

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually. The journey of a paper record from doctor's pad to the Ministry of Health in Kampala was treacherous at best.

Read more: Uganda, Medical Records, Mhealth, Mobile Phones, Public Health, Nonprofits, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Africa, Prescription Drugs, Computer Science, HIV/AIDS Africa, Technology, Healthcare, Global Health, Impact News

David Levis: Meeting The Children I Sponsor In Uganda

2012-05-02T09:35:19Z

To say that my trip to Uganda was life-changing would be too simplistic. After traveling from California half way around the world to meet our sponsor...

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Daniel Philpott: Reconciliation 2012: A Local Response To Joseph Kony And The International Community

2012-05-01T10:31:54Z

Kony 2012 has garnered more than 100 million hits and has motivated viewers to support the arrest and trial of one of the world's most monstrous war criminals. What it misses, though, are the voices of ordinary Ugandans who have responded quite differently.

Read more: Peacebuilding, Kony 2012, Christianity, Uganda, Joseph Kony, Forgiveness, Peace, Reconciliation, Video, Religion News

U.S. Special Forces Assist In Hunt For Warlord Joseph Kony

2012-04-29T18:46:48Z

OBO, Central African Republic -- Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the contin...

Read more: Kony Hunt, Stop Kony 2012, Joseph Kony Hunt, Central African Republic, Stopkony, US Special Forces, Joseph Kony, Congo, Lord's Resistance Army, Video, Joseph-Kony, Africa, Lra, Kony 2012, Uganda, Stop Kony, South Sudan, World News

Madelyn McGlynn: How Five Small-Town Girls Saved Lives Across The Globe

2012-04-29T00:02:03Z

My sisters and I wanted to help, so we researched malaria and learned that it kills one child every 30 seconds. It was terrible to realize that children were suffering and dying from a preventable disease.

Read more: Ysa List, Ysa, Malaria, 25-Most-Powerful-and-Influential-Young-People-in-the-World, Amazing Teens, Uganda, Network Against Malaria, Gen: Change, Teen News

WATCH: Ugandan Activists Launch Counter-Kony Movement

2012-04-20T17:12:14Z

To "recapture" their story from the Kony2012 movement, a group of Ugandan activists have launched a new online storytelling project.

Incensed by t...

Read more: Cover the Night, Video, Kony, Uganda Advocates, Jason Russell Invisible Children, Kony 2012, Kony-2012, Uganda 2012, Invisible Children, Uganda, Joseph Kony, Uganda Speaks, Advocacy, Impact News

High School Service Director Builds Homes, Improves Medical Care In Uganda

2012-04-20T14:48:39Z

Debbie Jarosz didn't spend a lot of time thinking about global problems while growing up.

"I was a Cleveland girl," she said. "We did our vacations...

Read more: Lake Catholic High School, Gulu Help Foundation, Lord's Resistance Army, Rock Foundation School, Cleveland, Lra, Habitat for Humanity, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Debbie Jarosz, Habitat for Humanity Uganda, Impact News

Kony 2012: 'Cover The Night' Advocates Local Service Projects On 4/20

2012-04-20T10:26:33Z

The "Kony 2012" campaign is urging followers to shift their advocacy efforts from their social networks to real life.

Invisible Children, the creat...

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Twesigye Jackson Kaguri: Follow Your Passion

2012-04-20T12:25:10Z

Why did I leave a job with excellent pay, retirement benefits, medical insurance and career advancement to work for a small non-profit? It's called passion.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Philanthropy, Books, Michigan State University, Africa, Jobs, Passion, Global Motherhood, Uganda, Idi Amin, Home News

The Hunt For Joseph Kony

2012-04-20T11:10:00Z

By Richard Lough RIVER CHINKO, Central African Republic, April 20 (Reuters) - A Ugandan "hunting squad" pushes through the thick jungl...

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Stephen Shames: The New Face of Africa

2012-04-18T12:20:31Z

L.E.A.D Uganda's children do not want your pity. They do not need charity. Africa's youth want your support as an active, equal partner, so they can transform their communities, their country, and their continent.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Kony 2012, Uganda, Child Soldiers, Africa, Uganda l.e.a.d., African Orphans, Africa Poverty, Uganda Poverty, Africa Education, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Laurence Watts: PHOTOS: 10 Breathtaking Sights You'll Miss If You Boycott Anti-Gay Countries

2012-04-18T09:33:00Z

Read more: Gay Travels in the Muslim World, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Pakistan, Namibia, Dominica, Jamaica, Gay Travel Tips, Libya, Egypt, Bangladesh, Gay Travel, Uganda, Boycotting Anti-Gay Countries, Slideexpand, Anti-Gay Countries, Travel Tips, Gay Travel Advice, Gay Voices News

Akandwahano Dominic: My Journey From A Ugandan Village To Harvard

2012-04-16T08:30:00Z

In primary school, I had to walk five kilometers daily to and from school, bearing the coldness of the morning on my bare feet before turning around and greeting the dangers of the dark.

Read more: Uganda, Harvard, Africa Education, Africa, Harvard University, Education, Ngos, East Africa, Slidewide, College, Education News

Wayne Besen: Invisible Children: Screaming 'Monster!' While Hanging Out With Bigfoot

2012-04-13T14:57:00Z

To restore its waning credibility, Invisible Children should immediately cut ties with the dictator and the corrupted Fellowship. As long as Invisible Children is linked to human rights violators, its claims to be humanitarian will be suspect.

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Jody Christopherson: Playwright Erik Ehn on Soulographie: Our Genocides a Commemorative Cycle

2012-04-11T13:40:00Z

Playwrights like these, clearly passionate people who are willing to risk, willing to do things the hard way -- they have the important and difficult task of sharing what they've seen. How do they begin to speak the unspeakable?

Read more: El Salvador, Erik Ehn, Theater of Yugen, Tulsa-Oklahoma, San Salvador, Africa, La Mama, Uganda, Playwrighting, Theater for Change, Tulsa, Rwanda, Witnessing, Soulographie, New York Theater, Video, Kony and Child Soldiers, Arts News

Bruce Wilson: KONY 2012 Effort a Ministry in Antigay Evangelical Barnabas Group, Reports LGBT Rights Nonprofit

2012-04-10T19:35:20Z

Mounting suspicions about the evangelical nature of the Invisible Children nonprofit, which released the blockbuster KONY 2012 viral video hit in early March, have now been confirmed.

Read more: Invisible Children, Anti Homosexuality Bill, Uganda, The Family, Jason Russell, Kony 2012, Truth Wins Out, Wayne Besen, The Fellowship, Ben Keesey, Politics News

Helene D. Gayle: "It Takes A Village" And More To Change Lives In Uganda

2012-04-10T12:55:22Z

From the rural villages in northern Uganda to the bustling city of Kampala, poverty-fighting programs have something notable in common: they demonstrate how integrated programming can help achieve sustainable changes in the lives and women, men and their families.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Integrated Health Care, Kony 2012, Reach Out Mbuya, Global Motherhood, Uganda, Health Care, Women in Africa, Impact News

Samantha Tritsch: "Kony 2012": Jason Russell or Joseph Kony?

2012-04-08T22:15:46Z

Will Joseph Kony ever be transformed from a household name into a convicted mass-murderer, or will the quest to stop the innocent killing in Uganda die out as a mere fad, a PR ploy gone terribly wrong?

Read more: Kony 2012, Joseph Kony, Joseph Kony LRA, Uganda, Invisible Children, PR Ploy, Jason Russell, College News

Bruce Wilson: KONY 2012 Effort a 'Trojan Horse,' Says Invisible Children Cofounder Russell

2012-04-06T19:11:52Z

While most mainstream media continues to uncritically report on the Invisible Children effort, there is a growing body of reporting tying the KONY 2012 authors to the politicized Christian right.

Read more: Kony 2012, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Uganda, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, Uganda Gay Rights, Video, Politics News

John Travis: "Kony 2012": Why It Worked

2012-04-06T11:41:08Z

"Kony 2012" and why people can only help if they know what is going onBy now you have all most likely seen the "Kony 2012" video and I'm guessing you ...

Read more: Uganda, Sout Sudan, Africa Water Wells, Africa, Joseph Kony, Drop in the Bucket, Water Wells, Water and Sanitation, Lira, Lra, Lord's Resistance Army, Water, Clean Water Africa, Acholi, Kony 2012, Gulu, Invisible Children, Impact News