Nate Henn, 25, was one of the victims in yesterday’s bombing in Kigali, Rwanda of a rugby field where the World Cup final was being televised on a giant screen. Nate listed himself as a 2007 graduate of the University of Delaware. When I was on the Inquirer’s editorial board writing about Northern Uganda from about [...]

Check out this report from the Brookings-Bern project on Internal Displacement, which I haven’t read yet because it just came out.

The International Criminal Court announced today that it would issue its decision a week from Wednesday, March 4, on the request to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on charges of crimes associated with the violence in Darfur. Read about it at the ICC’s Web site.

My head is going to explode from the criticism I’m hearing now about the U.S. helping the Ugandan government and neighbors militarily pursue Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army rebel elite.
Look, in 1993, I was one of the earliest journalists in this country to write — and write consistently — about the war in [...]

Nothing like marking the beginning of a new month with an attack by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Reuters story below, with my brief comment following it.
Ugandan rebels attack Congo town, 50,000 flee -UN
Sat 1 Nov 2008, 17:58 GMT

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KINSHASA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels raided a town in northern [...]

I want peace in northern Uganda as much as anyone. I have spent years of my professional life trying to educate and focus attention on the conflict between Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda and the government of Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, and the impact it has had on children. And I was one [...]