Peace & Conflict Update

This week didn’t bring any news of attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). And compared to this time last year, the general state of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has eased. Although Enough Project warns that though Ugandan and Congolese state officials may say that the conflict is dying down, attacks are not a thing of the past, and happen with relative frequency.

The LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 is still gaining momentum, as four new senators and fourteen representatives signed on in the past week alone. Senator Inhofe (R-Ok) continues to be a committed supporter of the bill, enough so to criticize his colleagues’ hold on the bill from the Senate floor yesterday.

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