AFJN members wrote letters last month requesting that the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda call on his superiors in the State Department to commit to ending the twenty year war in northern Uganda. Ambassador Browning has heard our pleas, and responded in a letter to AFJN.

In the letter, Ambassador Browning reflected on recent trips to the north, saying, "The horrors that these individuals faced are unimaginable; giving them back their lives and their hopes will require concerted and long-term effort." Download a Northern Uganda Action Packet and use it to write letters to the State Department demanding such effort today! 

ENTEBBE, 4 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - For close to two decades, northern Uganda has been the scene of one of the most brutal civil wars in the world, a conflict that has forced almost two million people into camps for the internally displaced scattered across the region. Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, visited the region on 1 April to witness the humanitarian emergency firsthand. In an interview with IRIN, Egeland called the conflict "the worst form of terrorism in the world".