If you want to read more about my semester abroad from a different perspective, check out my friend Brynn's blog. She's incredibly introspective and amazingly eloquent: http://bamafrica.areavoices.com/.
for news from Uganda:
New Vision
The Daily Monitor
for news from Rwanda:
New Times
for a Kinyarwanda cheat-sheet:
Kinyarwanda Language Conversational Dictionary
Check out a few organizations I researched while I was abroad, all of which have/had programs in Gulu and the surrounding war-affected districts:
Caritas
ChildVoice International
ChildFund International
Justice and Reconciliation Project
Norwegian Refugee Council
World Food Programme