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  • The Unknown Soldier

    The greatest injustice about injustice may be that, after a while, it gets boring. Take the war against the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda as an example. That conflict started way back in...
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    Ugandan students should take note of American school shootings

    It has happened again. The tragic shooting at Northern Illinois University is yet another instance of gun violence on an American university campus and the second this month alone. On February 8th a...
  • Who is really in control in Kenya?

    Kofi Annan is in Kenya to lead talks between President Mwai Kibaki and ODM opposition leader Raila Odinga. Thus far the two men have failed to find any common ground upon which they can work to...
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    The Greatest Silence

    Lisa F. Jackson's documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo won Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize. Watch a clip from the movie and it is not hard to see why.
  • Kenya's violence in Images

    These images are taken by Kenyan bloggers and photojournalists in the country over the past three weeks. The RSS feed is coming from Kenya Post-Election Pictures 2008, a Flickr group. [swf file...
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    Uganda, Congo and why the oil will flow

    Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have not always treated each other with a great deal of respect. But now that oil has been discovered in Lake Albert, that has only made things more...