On Sunday at the Sudan-Congo border, the LRA paraded a group of more than 100 children to Unicef officials. "I am from Gulu [northern Uganda] and have been here for two years. I want to go back home," one 18-year-old girl said, as tears rolled down her scarred face. Among the children were 18 boys aged from eight years, 20 mothers carrying babies aged from two months to two-and-a-half years and more than 60 girls aged 12 and over. "More than 500 boys and girls from various places in northern Uganda and southern Sudan are still in our camps," said Capt. Sunday Ochaya, who is also the coordinator between the LRA and the southern Sudan government. "They will be brought later, [because] they will have to walk for four hours." Read more at the UN's IRIN News.

Sudan, Uganda and Congo are the world's three most dangerous places for children due to wars that have brought death, disease and displacement to millions, a Reuters AlertNet poll shows. "The most dangerous places are those conflict zones where children are actively recruited into the fighting forces, and the current worst offender...is Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army," said Gareth Evans, head of the International Crisis Group think tank. Read more at Reuters AlertNet.

The New York Times has published an article about malaria in Africa, focusing on its effects in northern Uganda. They write, "It is no secret that mosquitoes carry the parasite that causes malaria. More mystifying is why 800,000 young African children still die of malaria per year — more than from any other disease — when there are medicines that cure for 55 cents a dose, mosquito nets that shield a child for $1 a year and indoor insecticide spraying that costs about $10 annually for a household." The article reprimands USAID, the World Bank and other institutions for failing to live up to their commitments to combat this disease.