Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “A US-funded atrocity prevention system is going dark.” This feature story examines how local peacebuilders warn that remote communities in Central Africa are becoming harder to reach — and harder to protect.

Invisible Children reported these impacts across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan. Their atrocity prevention programs, which have since been terminated and scaled down, included early warning and emergency response systems addressing intercommunal violence and threats from armed groups, as well as a reunification program connecting children and youth abducted by groups, such as the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, back to their families, often across borders. While some activities have continued with unrestricted funding from private donors, the termination or non-renewal of USAID and State department grants to these projects have led to the separation of about 30 staff across headquarters and country teams at a time when questions about the reemergence of the LRA, a Ugandan militant group led by Joseph Kony, are starting to be discussed.

It is estimated that among the 98 communities connected through the radio network across Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé, DRC, 36 are now partially disconnected because broken radios cannot be repaired.

Source: Devex