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October 2011 - President Obama’s marching orders may have come as a surprise, but they were not entirely unexpected. The President has said he will send 100 marines to Uganda, where the US army’s elite soldiers will not go looking for Joseph Kony directly, but will aim to support the Ugandan and Congolese army units, who are uprising against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).more

September 2011 – Never before in history have there been so many dramatic changes in such a short time on the African continent. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and most recently Libya have put an end to an era of oppression and excessively unfair distribution of wealth. At the very least, the people’s voices can no longer be ignored in North Africa.more

July 2011 - There will be pompous celebrations of independence on the 9th of July in the dusty town of Juba in southern Sudan. About 90 percent of the population voted at the beginning of the year for a separation from the all-powerful arab muslim north. Too many years of oppression against the underdeveloped stretch of land of the size of Germany and France made no other solution of the inner Sudanese conflict possible.. more

May 2011 – On my recent trips through post revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt I met a lot of impressive representatives of the new northafrican civilsociety. Doctors, teachers, journalists, students and activists from the poor outskirts, who simply had enough of corruption and nepotism and who still stand up for a change for democracy in their countries- without violence. There is an irrepressible will for freedom and justice in both countries, which could not be controlled by the former regimes anymore. more

April 2011 – Joseph Kony is back. This message spread like a wildfire across the dark green forests of the Congo. The young fighters of the Lord`s Resistance Army were assumed to have been for several months in the deserts of the unhospitable Sudanese Darfur region.more