Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to come out of hiding and face justice. Speaking to journalists on Feb.27 in Kampala during her second-of-a-five-day visit to Uganda, Bensouda said if Kony were to surrender …
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By The Independent Team (Washington, DC, January 7, 2015) – A commander of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been taken into custody by US military forces, according to news reports. The US State Department indicated that a man who identified himself as Dominic Ongwen, the commander, …
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By The Independent Team The Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader, Joseph Kony, has written to Ugandans seeking forgiveness and a resumption of peace talks to end the insurgency. “I want to assure the people of Uganda that, we [LRA] are committed to a sustainable peaceful political settlement of our long …
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By Julius Odeke President Yoweri Museveni has pledged to compensate the widow Florence Asao whose husband killed the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Brig Charles Tabuley during the rebel invasion in Teso Sub region in 2003. The president made this promise while on his tour to Anyara Sub County in …
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By Julius Odeke The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (Bureau of African Affairs), Mr Jonnie Carson, has warned stakeholders involved in global initiatives to end the atrocities attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that no single silver bullet can on its own solve the LRA problem. According to …
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By The Independent Team INFO: AC. TO FM DGISO. DDG. D/J[T. DT 21/06/04. SITREP. Kony, Lukwiya, Odyambo, Oyoo, Kapere, Ocan Bunia, Angola, Opio Makas, Lapanyikwara, Labongo, Lagulu and Wod Paco were on air. Kony; Kony, Lukwiya, Odyambo, Oyoo, Kapere, Ocan Bunia, Angola, Opio Makas, Lapanyikwara, Labongo, Lagulu and Wod Paco …
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By David Alton In 1960, the year in which the Congo became independent, I was a boy attending the local parish primary school. The good Sisters of Mercy who taught me had links with the Congo and the entire class had been enlisted to raise money to support Congolese children, …
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By Barrack Obama Today, May 24, I signed into law the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009. The legislation crystallises the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the LRA across …
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By Julia Spiegel & Noel Atama In the months since the armies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan launched Operation Lightning Thunder, a joint military offensive against the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, the threat to civilians in the region has dramatically intensified. Efforts to negotiate …
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By Julia Spiegel & Noel Atama In the months since the armies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan launched Operation Lightning Thunder, a joint military offensive against the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, the threat to civilians in the region has dramatically intensified. Efforts to negotiate …
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