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Peter J. Quaranto and Lisa Dougan join the Invisible Children Board of Directors, bringing seasoned leadership and deep regional expertise at a pivotal time for the organization and its partners in central Africa and Sudan. Invisible Children is thrilled to announce the appointment of Peter J. Quaranto and Lisa Dougan to its Board of Directors. […]

As atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region have escalated in recent weeks, Invisible Children and its partners have ramped up our efforts to respond to the crisis. There is now substantial global attention on El Fashir, Sudan, where paramilitary forces have seized control and committed horrific atrocities against local communities – crimes that many experts believe […]

An unfolding crisis in the Darfuri city of El Fashir is the latest chapter in a Sudanese civil war in which civilians have faced deliberate attacks and systematic violence, including mass atrocities. Since the end of October, the Sudanese city of El Fashir has been the subject of countless headlines and chyrons across the world. […]

Lisa Dougan, directrice exécutive d’Invisible Children, quitte ses fonctions après dix ans de service dévoué en tant que directrice exécutive et un total de 18 ans au sein de l’organisation. Elle passe le flambeau à la directrice exécutive intérimaire Mary T. An, qui mènera Invisible Children vers son prochain chapitre. Une lettre de notre président […]

Lisa Dougan, President & CEO of Invisible Children, will be stepping down after ten years of dedicated service as the CEO and a total of 18 years with the organization. She passes the torch to Interim CEO Mary T. An, who will lead Invisible Children into its next chapter. A letter from our Board Chair, […]

Invisible Children is seeking an Interim CFO who thrives in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment and who is excited to bring both strategic leadership to the organization, while also ensuring oversight and support to the organization’s day-to-day finance and accounting needs. Category: Consultancy Location: Remote, with a preference for candidates in the Washington, D.C. […]

Yesterday Rolling Stone released an in-depth piece documenting recent operations targeting Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, and how these recent events fit into the larger geopolitical landscape in central Africa and beyond. The article is one of the first publications on Kony and the LRA by a […]

In 2021, Invisible Children partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement USAID’s People to People (P2P) Activity in the Central African Republic (CAR), a multi-year initiative that equips Central African youth peacebuilders with the skills needed to reduce intercommunal tension and armed group violence in eastern CAR. A key component […]

There has been a historic development in the LRA’s campaign of violence in central Africa. A large faction of LRA fighters has laid down their weapons and peacefully surrendered. Just weeks later, a second group of LRA also surrendered. This is incredible news for communities in central Africa and the dozens of women and children […]

The Deputy Chief of Party is a full-time position for an upcoming six (6) years funding opportunity that we expect USAID to release soon. The objective of the Central African Republic (CAR) Regional Peacebuilding and Anticorruption Mechanism Activity is to reduce violence and build more effective, accountable, and democratic governance systems in CAR with a […]