Presentation by Dr. Adam Branch. I have been asked to speak on issues surrounding IDPs (short for internally displaced persons) something I have been concerned with and worked on, here and in northern Uganda, since 2001. We have all, I hope, heard of the crisis of displacement in northern...

By Frankie Martin. While the world looks elsewhere, Somalia is in flames. The nation just topped a list of the world's most unstable countries by Foreign Policy magazine, and the United Nations has declared the humanitarian situation there "worse than Darfur". In the next three months the number of...

By John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen. To anyone tracking the international community's muddled efforts to broker peace in Darfur, last week's decision to appoint a new mediator, Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibril Bassole, is welcome news. But it is only a small first step in building a...

By: Justin D. Wannis Sweden Northern Sudanese failed policies have contributed to 52 years of untold sufferings and wars waged by different armed groups from all corners of the African biggest and beautiful country - the Sudan. It is time for the north to come up with a new policy to help the...

Henry Wasswa Kampala, Uganda The two-year peace process in Uganda aimed at ending a rebellion by the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) lies in tatters as the rebels rearm and Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan gear up for battle. The LRA rebellion, which stretched...

By Norbert Mao Kampala After the flop of our mission to meet the LRA leader Joseph Kony, there was that last meeting before we all retreated back home (or as the Russians would say 'advanced towards home'). At the meeting, the disappointed peace emissaries agreed to issue a communiqué. That...