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Oil in Uganda: International Lessons for Success. Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) - By Michael Wilkerson. Click here to see photos of the evolution of the LRA. Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group Invisible Children. Former FP intern Michael Wilkerson, now a freelance journalist and grad student at Oxford -- who has lived and reported from Uganda -- contributed this guest post on the campaign.

-JK By Michael Wilkerson: "Joseph Kony is basically Adolf Hitler. Have you seen something like that fly across your Twitter or Facebook feed today? "#TweetToSave the Invisible Children of Uganda! "Kony 2012," a video posted by advocacy group Invisible Children to raise awareness about the pernicious evil of Lord's Risistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, has already been viewed over 8 million times on Vimeo and more than 9 million times on YouTube (and surely more by the time you read this) since its release this week.

It would be great to get rid of Kony. KONY 2012. Rebels Opposed To Ugandan Government Regroup In Congo. KAMPALA, Uganda — A rebel group that once terrorized parts of Uganda is regrouping in eastern Congo and could launch attacks on Ugandan territory, officials warned. The Allied Democratic Forces, which has emerged as the biggest threat to Uganda's security in the years since the Lord's Resistance Army was ousted from Uganda, has opened three military camps in eastern Congo and is actively recruiting in central Uganda, the officials said this week. "The ADF is for real," said Col. Felix Kulayigye, spokesman for the Ugandan army. "If they have begun military drills, what is the motive? They are not there for tourism. " The rebel group was formed in the early 1990s by Ugandan Muslims who said they had been sidelined by the policies of President Yoweri Museveni, who has led Uganda since 1986.

"ADF has over the years used the Congo as a base to attack Uganda," said Fred Opolot, a government spokesman. "There are reports of people just disappearing from their homes," Kulayigye said. International | Working to Protect Human Rights. Mystery 'nodding' disease devastates northern Uganda. PADER DISTRICT, Uganda (Reuters) - Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree.

It's not something he likes to do. But the disease that gives the 12-year-old violent seizures has so diminished her mental capacity that she no longer talks and often wanders off. Once, she was lost in the bush for three days. "It hurts me so much to tie my own daughter to a tree ... but because I want to save her life, I am forced to. Lamwaka suffers from nodding syndrome, a disease of unknown origins and no known cure, which Ugandan authorities estimate affects more than 3,000 children in the country. Named after its seizure-like episodes of head nodding, the disease, which mostly affects children between five and 15, has killed more than 200 children in Uganda in the past three years. As the seizures are often triggered by food, children who have nodding syndrome become undernourished and mentally and physically stunted.

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Uganda's Plight Pressed on Capitol Hill. Donning yellow and orange T-shirts, 700 activists from across the country pressed legislators and Capitol Hill staffers yesterday on the need for high-level American involvement to bring peace to northern Uganda, a region that has experienced wartime atrocities, abductions of children and widespread displacement for more than 20 years. Among the participants was Grace Akallo, 25, a former Ugandan child soldier, kidnapped from her dormitory by rebels along with 139 other girls 10 years ago. Yesterday, she recalled her ordeal. "They crashed the dorm windows with rifle butts and threatened to hurl a bomb at us," she said. "We first hid under our beds, pretending not to be there. They could see us, they said, and forced their way in with their guns. Tied together with rope, the girls marched all night.

" Akallo said she was held for seven months by the followers of Joseph Kony, the messianic and charismatic founder of the Lord's Resistance Army. "The United States is a house of power. Rep. The Love That Dares. A couple at a gay bar in Kampala that recently opened Photographs by Bryan Anselm Update (12/20/2013): On Friday, the Ugandan legislature passed the law stiffening penalties for "aggravated homosexuality. " According to the New York Times, "The law was not as tough as an initial bill, introduced in 2010 and later withdrawn, that would have imposed the death sentence in some cases and would have required citizens to report acts of homosexuality within 24 hours.

" Gays can still be sentenced to life in prison under the final legislation. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to karaoke. And those of you who were at Buckingham Palace: Welcome back. " That's a joke; none of us was at Buckingham Palace, which is 4,000 miles from here, but we've all been watching Kate Middleton storm Westminster Abbey in five yards of ivory satin gazar and appliquéd lace on televisions citywide all day. Uganda Penal Code Act of 1950, Chapter 120, Article 145: Unnatural offences. LGBT activist Kasha Nabagesera (top). Uganda and North Africa. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has, it seems, been paying attention to the “Arab spring” since it began. During the Ugandan presidential elections in February, in which Museveni won a fourth official term, government authorities banned the use of certain words in text messaging.

These included “Egypt”, “bullet,” “people power,” “Tunisia”, “Mubarak”, “dictator”, “teargas”, “army”, “police”, “gun”, “Ben Ali” and “UPDF,” the last term being the acronym of the Ugandan armed forces. Not too long afterward, NATION intervened in Libya, and Museveni was upset. In late March, he wrote a widely circulated article for Foreign Policy in which he cited double standards in the West’s treatment of Libya (versus, for example, Bahrain), lamented what he saw as the bypassing of the African Union in the decisionmaking process, and expressed concern about the potentially long-lasting, negative consequences of the intervention. Police banned the rally.

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