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Religion is Key to Conflict and Peace in Northern Uganda

The most violent hotspot in Africa right now is not the Darfur region of Sudan. Nor is it Somalia or Zimbabwe. The deadliest place in Africa today is in northeastern Congo, where the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an insurgency that originated in northern Uganda in the 1980s, is wreaking havoc on defenseless Congolese communities. Since September 2008, LRA fighters have attacked dozens of villages and towns, killing over 1,000 civilians and displacing close to 200,000.