Guardian article on the difficulties but also the potential of re-integrating former child soldiers back into their home villages: http://www.guardian.co.uk/journalismcompetition/resistance.armyRead more... )

I have been meaning to post an update of the situation in northern Uganda for a while now, for people's information, but am just working so so so hard that I don't get much time for anything else. I'm not sure how much people know, but there was supposed to be a big signing of the Peace Agreement between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the LRA ( Read more... )

Hi, I've started a new literary/cultural/artistic/travel writing webzine, tentatively called Chaos Theory, but probably about to be changed to Synchronized Chaos, or something similar. Several well-connected people and I are working on this and we hope for a fairly large distribution and cultural presence ( Read more... )

I just wanted to tell you all - all of you who supported Books for ( Read more... )

We are closer than ever before to a peace agreement in Northern Uganda, which would end warfare while calling upon the parties to the conflict to settle their economic differences via political means. However, northern rebel leader Joseph Kony has retreated from the negotiating table and as of yet refuses to sign the peace agreement. Many worldwide ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, wanted to give a shout-out to the Virunga Artisans, a group of women basket weavers in Uganda's Virunga region. http://www.virungaart.com/Products_U_Baskets.htmRead more... )

Over the weekend met a gentleman from the International Christian Cycling Club (http://www.christiancycling.com) They're a group of people who race bicycles and put on pasta feeds and social events for the riders (usually everyone in a particular race, Christian or not.) He said they ( Read more... )

In my opinion one of the greatest actions anyone can take to lessen poverty and suffering in Uganda and elsewhere is to support international debt relief. This would reduce Uganda's payments to the IMF/World Bank (at no cost to the taxpayers of any country, would come out of IMF reserves) and free up more cash for education, healthcare, etc ( Read more... )

Received this in my email today - from the ONE campaign, a coalition of mainstream groups, including Oxfam and World Vision, working for an end to extreme world poverty. I noticed the health educator mentioned works in Uganda and seems to be making a real difference in the country. I believe empowering people and helping them stay healthy and fed ( Read more... )

Taken from Uganda Conflict Action Network:
http://www.ugandacan.org/item/2664
"The Ugandan government and LRA delegations to the Juba peace talks signed a “permanent ceasefire” today, making it the third agenda item of the negotiations to be finalized within the last week. ( Read more... )