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  Want the latest on the LRA? Today Invisible Children + The Resolve launched the Quarter 1, 2014 LRA Crisis Tracker Security Brief which covers LRA activity between January-March 2014. Here are a few highlights from the analysis: 1. Seasonal spike in LRA attacks Typical for the regional dry season, there has been a spike […]

While there are always plenty of smiles to go around at Invisible Children Uganda’s Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) graduation celebrations, Mauricio’s stood out. As chairperson for his savings group, Mauricio couldn’t be prouder of the successes he and his course mates reached upon the completion of the FAL curriculum. “Functional Adult Literacy has helped us […]

It’s been three weeks since over 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their beds by the terrorist group Boko Haram (who today claimed responsibility for the abductions in a harrowing video where the group smiles and laughs as they tell the world that they plan to “sell” the girls). The story broke, then went silent. As […]

We’ll keep this short, as the video tells the story. If there was a theme of the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit, it was living the best dream for your life. That’s why we invited the guys from The Buried Life along – you may well know them: they have a show on MTV, they’re ridiculously […]

Abductions by Joseph Kony’s rebel army have contributed to thousands of missing children throughout East and central Africa. This is a story of one still missing. Martino sits under a tree next to his home gingerly cupping a booklet in his hand. A small face stares back at him from the page. He is holding […]

After Joseph Kony and his rebel army terrorized northern Uganda, many women like Mend’s Akulu Nancy struggled to support themselves and their families. But now she has reason to smile. With the money Nancy has made from Mend, she has been able to make a number of investments. She pays for school fees and uniforms […]

Some of our staff recently had the opportunity to go to China. How come? I asked our mobilization and communications strategist Hailey Mitsui-Davis. Hi Hailey! So you and a couple of other Invisible Children staff recently returned from a trip to China. What were you guys doing out there? Ben, our CEO, Maggie, who works […]

++ UPDATE 5/6/14: Watch a recording of the hearing here ++ Today at 10am ET, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on African Affairs will hold a hearing about the ongoing crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). The aim of the hearing is to keep the CAR crisis on the radar of the U.S. Government and to better identify how […]

  News continues to come from Nigeria in regards to the story of 234 schoolgirls (a number that was originally thought to be closer to 100) abducted and taken as ‘wives’ for Boko Haram militants. There have been reports of the abductors firing celebratory gunshots following scenes of mass marriages, with the young women being […]

Earlier this month six Ugandans escaped the LRA and returned home to Uganda, including two male combatants, three children and their brave mother. This is their story.   Tabu Simon was abducted from his home in Kitgum, Uganda in 1998 at the age of 13 after the LRA killed his father. He has spent the last […]