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November 10, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Through a Glass Brightly: Eastern Congo by Infrared
Excerpts from Richard Mosse’s essay in Infra, his book of photographs on eastern Congo.
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Congo (DRC)
October 21, 2011 | The Economist
Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the rebel Lord's Resistance Army cuts a wide swath of terror. Can American troops make a difference?
July 06, 2011 | The Atlantic, Pulitzer Center
Conflict Minerals in the Congo
Minerals extracted in the DRC are said to fund rebel groups connected with crimes of rape and murder. Advocate groups are working to limit the use of conflict minerals in electronics like cell phones.
March 24, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Living in Fear: Congo's FDLR
Walikale is notorious, even within eastern Congo. Villagers sleep in the bush for security and return to the village during the day to impersonate normal lives.
March 06, 2011 | VII Magazine
One Voice, One Thousand Children: Part 2
One young girl's story of being abducted, raped and forced to marry an army commander of The Lord's Resistance Army.
March 02, 2011 | VII Magazine
One Voice, One Thousand Children - Part 1
A former child soldier tells how he was abducted and conscripted into Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
January 06, 2011 | PBS Foreign Exchange
Congo's Bloody Coltan
Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a glimpse at coltan's role in the Democratic Republic of Congo's ongoing civil war.
December 24, 2010 | Foreign Policy
Obama's Other War
Can Barack Obama really defeat Central Africa's worst guerrilla warlord?
November 25, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
U.S. Response to the Lord's Resistance Army: What Now?
The Obama administration releases its strategy for disarming the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda's Joseph Kony. What does it say? What's missing?
November 11, 2010 | The Economist
Lords of Woe
America wants to end the reign of the brutal rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army. But can it?
November 11, 2010 | Human Rights Watch
Dear Obama: A Message from Victims of the LRA
In a joint reporting project of Human Rights Watch and the Pulitzer Center, victims of one of Africa's most notorious rebel groups make personal appeals for U.S. leadership.
October 29, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Now I Was One Of Them: Dakwa
The overwhelming majority – possibly approaching 80 percent – of the Lord's Resistance Army's total force is made up of abducted minors; the rebels' show a distinct preference for adolescent boys between 12 and 16.