Joseph Kony

Acholiland the northern former stronghold of rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony and where Museveni and Saleh disbursed large political funds to trounce the opposition in the last elections is also showing signs of antipathy to the state...

' There were five 'tracks' set as benchmarks for the lifting of trade sanctions: ending offensive military action in Darfur and the 'Two Areas' (Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile); access for humanitarian organisations; halting support to Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army; collaboration in counter-terrorism; and ending support for the armed opposition in South Sudan...

United States Special Forces and the Ugandan contingent are leaving Obo soon having on 19 April announced the end of their campaign in the area against Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni this year called the ICC 'useless' at his presidential inauguration yet his government had referred the situation in Uganda with militia leader Joseph Kony in mind for investigation in 2004...

Failed promiseAnother matter in the accumulated grievances fuelling violence in Equatoria is the government's failed promise to compensate the Arrow Boys for their initial mobilisation against Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA AC Vol 57 No 2 Pentagon expands in Africa)...

Africom also works with the Ugandan military to counter Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army which operates out of Central African Republic and Sudan (AC Vol 52 No 23 USA joins fight against LRA)...

Meanwhile the continuing multinational military offensive against the Lord's Resistance Army led by Khartoum's Ugandan rebel proxy Joseph Kony will give Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni an excuse to keep a detachment of Ugandan troops in South Sudan even though the peace deal says they should all withdraw...

Most information the Sudan passes on is likely to be on Somalia's Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army said one Sudanese rights specialist...

Museveni who had invited the International Criminal Court to investigate and track down Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army has changed his mind about the ICC's role in Africa and become one of its most determined opponents...

Washington has since augmented its Special Operations forces searching for the Lord's Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony using modern US military aircraft for the first time since it joined the hunt for the elusive warlord and his men...