Talking Rights

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Lam Cosmas,
originally uploaded by FabiolaPal.

One of the most moving presentations we heard this week was from Lam Oryem Cosmas, the Executive Secretary of the Justice and Peace Council of the Ecclesiastical Province of Gulu. A lay worker [...]

News focuses on the basket cases of the world. In Africa, than means Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo and Somalia. But less obvious to the casual news reader is the effect these extreme cases have on their neighbors. In Uganda, conflict elsewhere has immediate, visible impact at home. While Uganda has its internal conflicts, they are [...]

For the next three weeks, I will be posting from Africa. I was fortunate enough to be included on a trip organized by Sylvain Boko, of Wake Forest University, and Craig Brookins, of North Carolina State University. The theme is post-conflict reconstruction, and we will be visiting Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa.
The trip [...]

After five years, the trial of Theoneste Bagosora (second from left), the alleged mastermind of the Rwandan genocide, ended on Friday. Together with three other top army commanders, Bagosora was accused of planning and coordinating the slaughter by Hutus of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994.At the Arusha-based international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, [...]

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post had this hilarious video report on the Sudanese ambassador’s Washington press conference yesterday. John Ukec Lueth Ukec threatened to halt exports of gum arabic — an ingredient in the carbonated beverage — if President Bush follows through on recently announced economic sanctions.
As the Post reported on Wednesday, Bush’s plan [...]