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According to multiple articles, including Invisible Children & Resolve’s own LRA Crisis Tracker, the LRA has been ramping up attacks and abductions within the past few months. The UN News Centre, the Voice of America, and humanitarian news site AlertNet have all reported a rise of LRA activity since January both in the Democratic Republic of […]

We believe that great things can be achieved when people come together for a common cause. So does Earth Hour. On Saturday, March 31 at 8:30PM, they invite you to celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world by switching off your lights for an hour. From its inception as a single-city […]

So far 3,530,673 people from countries all over the globe have pledged support. The world is responding. Policymakers are starting to take a stand in support of ending LRA violence. In just the last two weeks, two bipartisan resolutions supporting the effort against the LRA have been introduced into the U.S. Congress. Together, the House […]

Nodding disease is a mysterious illness that devastates victims, primarily children ages 5-15, by triggering a variety of symptoms including seizures, the inability to speak, and the inability to consume food. Eventually nodding disease kills many of its victims and scientists from around the world have been unable to determine the cause. This deadly disease […]

The African Union announced the establishment of a Regional Task Force to support efforts already underway to end the LRA threat to central Africa. This signifies a strong commitment from not just regional actors, but shows that on a continental level the LRA is a priority. The AU task force has committed to adding additional troops to […]

During the Rwanda Genocide, Samantha Power tells us that Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado congresswoman explained to reporters that they were “getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.” Up to this point in time there was no “endangered peoples movement”, as […]

Mercy Southam, one of the LRA Crisis Tracker Project Developers in our San Diego headquarters, is compiling weekly reports based on data generated from IC’s Early Warning Radio Network, the UN, and organizations on the ground. She will be breaking down the information and highlighting specified activity in the weekly blog post, On The Radar. […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks earlier today on the decades-long series of atrocities committed by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Ros-Lehtinen expressed her support for current legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives designed to assist in bringing Kony and […]

The author of this BBC article interviews people from South Sudan and DR Congo who are living in refugee camps because of LRA violence. This perspective has been largely missing from the global conversation about stopping Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The first-hand accounts make it clearer than ever that LRA violence must be stopped […]