In come the vigilantes

The 'Arrow Boys' are doing better than the army in the war against the LRA

The advance of Joseph Kony's dreaded Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) towards Soroti, the main town of eastern Teso region, has shocked the government and caught the army by surprise. President Yoweri Museveni is trying to reassure local people that every effort is being made to halt the advance; Soroti is only some 200 kilometres from the capital, Kampala, well south of the LRA's savannah heartland.

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Joseph Kony, Yoweri Museveni, Andrew Gutti, Congo-Kinshasa, Salim Saleh, Mosa Echuaru, Sam Otai, Low-tech warfare, David Masereka, Taban Kibanzanga, Nathan Mugisha, Milton Obote, David Nyekrach Masanga, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Henri Obonyo, Akena Pojok, British, Rwanda, Kizza Besigye, Peter Otai, Sudan, Siraj el Din Hamid Yousif, Noble Mayombo, James Wapakabulo, Adam Wood, Valerie Amos, Clare Short, Ruth Nankabirwa, John Mugume, Vincent Otto

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