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اتصل بالبيت الابيض وأعضاء الكونجرس الامريكي من أجل دارفور وشمال يوغندا
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Here are two ideas for political action concerning Africa, from an organization called Africa Faith and Justice Network
1) 30days ago, President Bush appointed Andrew Natsios to be the Special Envoy to Sudan. Today, nothing has changed for the two million people displaced and terrorized by the ongoing genocide in Darfur. As the death toll continues to rise and the rhetoric of our policymakers has not translated into decisive action, please call the White House today at 202-456-1111 and leave a message for President Bush. Tell him that you are concerned and that until he puts genuine economic and political pressure on the Sudanese government, the terror in Darfur will not stop.
2) As of today, there has been twenty years of war in northern Uganda between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan Army, during which the LRA has kidnapped tens of thousands of children and forced them to fight as child soldiers and to submit to being child wives of soldiers. In October, over seven hundred people convened to march on Washington from forty states, calling for the U.S. government to publicly support ongoing negotiations that could bring a lasting end to the twenty year war in northern Uganda. While the heat has dramatically turned up on Congress, the State Department is not yielding to pressure. Yesterday, the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda signed an extension to their ceasefire agreement, a major step forward for the process. But the U.S. government continues to avoid endorsing the negotiations. Please email your Member of Congress today urging public support for this opportunity to end the war in northern Uganda. You can find out who your Member of Congress is and her/his contact info here: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
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