Mission in the Balance: Challenges for U.S. Advisors in Helping to End the LRA
The U.S. military advisors deployed against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in central and east Africa are starting to make progress in tracking the group, but serious challenges remain to make the mission a success. To assess both the progress and challenges of ongoing efforts to end the LRA, Enough Project LRA researcher Kasper Agger travelled to the Central African Republic and reports on the findings from his trip, along with an accompanying video and photo slideshow ...
Making the Most of the Capture of the LRA’s Caesar Acellam
The capture of Caesar Acellam, a high-ranking LRA commander, is a significant development in the effort to bring an end to the rebel group. His survival and safe capture should serve as a model for future encounters with LRA leaders and can be a real game changer provided that the U.S., Uganda, and other partners utilize this opportunity fully ...
Betty Bigombe, the ‘Mother’ of Uganda’s Acholi
Since the early 1900s countries around the world have celebrated International Women’s Day as a time to recognize the role of women in society and mobilize against injustices specifically impacting half of the world’s population. At Enough, rather than confining our commemoration to just one day—March 8—we’re giving a special focus to women all this week, to highlight how the conflicts we’re working to end affect women and girls, and to recognize the work of heroes advocating on their behalf. For Day 1 of our International Women’s Week coverage, Enough’s Kampala based LRA researcher Kasper Agger spoke to Betty Bigombe, ...
Former LRA Rebel Graduates from University, A Testament to Importance of Amnesty Law
Sam Kolo, once known as a high-ranking commander and spokesperson for the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, graduated from Gulu University last week with a degree in business administration. In an interview with the Ugandan Daily Monitor after the ceremony, Kolo said he regrets that so many of his former comrades remain in the bush. “We would be jubilating with them,” he said ...