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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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    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.
  • Be Invisible, in a trendy Hoodie

    However you may feel about NGOs and foreigners filming the plight of locals, you have to hand it to these guys. Invisible Children was released back in 2003, so five years on you might expect that...
  • War Dance: a new story for an old song

    War Dance is the latest in a line of documentaries made by Americans about the war in Northern Uganda. Like Invisible Children before it, War Dance focuses on how children have been affected by the...
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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...
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    Are Ugandans subsidizing the war in Iraq?

    Uganda and Iraq have a special relationship. Thousands of Ugandans are making the trip to quaint military compounds in cities such as Baghdad and Tikrit in order to make ends meet, something they...