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NPR
April 28, 2018
Uganda: The U.S. military launched a search in 2011 for rebel leader Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army had terrorized Uganda and neighboring states for years. The U.S. efforts have help weaken the group. But Kony remains at large and the search has wound down. Somalia: The AmericanÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 27, 2018
Two decades on, he again took up a rifle — this time playing one of his former comrades in an award-winning Ugandan movie. As the ... It was all for The Devil's Chest, one of two feature films about Joseph Kony and his rebel Lord's Resistance Army that were made on location in northern Uganda last year.
Independent.ie
April 15, 2018
As we travel North from Kampala, we pass through the town of Gulu, birthplace of Joseph Kony. Kony is the leader of the exceptionally violent rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, whose modus operandi was murder, mutilation, torture, rape and kidnapping, forcing children as young as nine and 10 toÃâà...
The Guardian
April 12, 2018
Since 2002, ICC prosecutors have indicted 39 individuals including: the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony; the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir; the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta; the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; and the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. The court, which hasÃâà...
The Observer
April 11, 2018
Aliker delves into Uganda's chaotic political past, recalling how Museveni and himself visited President Binaisa in 1980 at State House Entebbe. “Museveni was ... One day he received a letter purportedly written by rebel leader Joseph Kony asking for medicines for gonorrhoea, cholera, and diarrhoea.
New Vision
March 21, 2018
In 2003, the government of Uganda referred the case to the International Criminal Court, which issued arrest warrants against rebel leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders Vincent Otti and Dominic Ongwen. Kony is still at large, while Otti has been reported dead. However, Ongwen is undergoing trialÃâà...
The Manila Times
March 18, 2018
In addition to President Uhuru, almost 40 individuals have been indicted by the ICC, including Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, and Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. Many casesÃâà...
New Vision
March 9, 2018
The LRA dates back to January 1987, when a voodoo priestess, Alice Auma Lakwena, set up a rebel group to fight Uganda's new leader, Yoweri Museveni. The following year, Joseph Kony, presented as Lakwena's cousin, took over the group, which was renamed the LRA and whose mission was to ruleÃâà...
thejournal.ie
March 6, 2018
IT'S BEEN YEARS since Joseph Kony has been in the headlines for his campaigns of terror in Northern Uganda – but the legacy of his brutality lives on in his former child soldiers. TheJournal.ie visited Uganda recently and spoke to Denis Ojara, a former child soldier in Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)Ãâà...
Stars and Stripes
February 24, 2018
It was all for 'The Devil's Chest,' one of two feature films about Joseph Kony and his rebel Lord's Resistance Army that were made on location in northern Uganda last year and stirred some painful memories. "I felt it all coming back, the frustrations, the helplessness and how sometimes I would feel that I justÃâà...
Princeton Alumni Weekly
February 22, 2018
Stories of religious extremism in Africa aren't hard to find, from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, a heterodox Christian rebel group that has been waging a war in northern Uganda for decades, to Boko Haram, an Islamic militant organization in Nigeria. But behind each attention-grabbing event are theÃâà...
The Guardian
January 8, 2018
She had spent 10 years in captivity as a child soldier and later was forced to marry a member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Now 30, Acayo, like many of ... “When the community knows you are a former rebel fighter, people finger-point and look at you as a killer. You are called all sorts ofÃâà...
ABC Online
October 23, 2017
Gulu endured more than two decades of terror at the hands of Joseph Kony and his rebel group, the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). Thousands of people were killed, children were abducted and more than 1.7 million were forced to flee their homes during Kony's reign. But, now peace has come to the northÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 28, 2017
Last month, the Pentagon declared mission accomplished on its six-year, $800 million hunt for Joseph Kony. Though it failed to kill or capture the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a brutal Ugandan rebel force that has terrorized civilians across a wide swath of Central Africa for the pastÃâà...
BBC News
May 22, 2017
The international hunt for Joseph Kony seems to be over, but the notorious rebel leader, who was first chased from his native Uganda to South Sudan and then to the Central African Republic, is still at large. So what do those civilians most vulnerable to attacks from Kony's Lord's Resistance Army do now?
BBC News
April 19, 2017
Ugandan troops have pulled out of the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), the army has said. He and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) group had become "weak", and no longer threatened Uganda, it added. The LRA was notorious for chopping off people's limbs andÃâà...
SDE Entertainment News
December 31, 1999
Mutilated for ransom: The scary tale of heartless Ugandan kidnappers. Crazy Monday. 200. Annet Kasiima. By Annet Kasiima 6 hours ... Ten years ago, we were blaming rebel chief Joseph Kony for abducting children and turning them into soldiers. We called him and barbaric. Now people's children areÃâà...
Irish Examiner
December 31, 1999
abducted to fight for the rebel warlord Joseph Kony and his brutal guerrilla group, the Lord's Resistance Army. ... As many as 30,000 Ugandan men and women have similar tales to tell of their lives as child soldiers or sex slaves for the rebel commanders during the 20 years of havoc the LRA wreaked in theÃâà...
New Vision
December 31, 1999
With Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chased out of Uganda and Dominic Ongwen, one of his top honchos, being prosecuted at The Hague ... The children would then be used to raid villages, loot and take more boys and girls hostage to fight and satisfy rebel commanders' sexual appetites.
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