Vol 56 No 18 | 
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- UGANDA
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     But Washington officials concede that the LRA's military command  including its founder Joseph Kony  remain at large and still 'pose a serious regional threat which undermines stability and development'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    ' That's quite a U-turn from a leader whose government five years ago requested the ICC to indict Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army and help to arrest him...
	 
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	     After calling on the ICC to arrest and prosecute Joseph Kony  leader of the murderous Lord’s Resistance Army  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni now damns it as an instrument of Western interference in Africa...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Kampala has threatened to pull out of regional operations against Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army and to withdraw from the African Union Mission in Somalia if the charges are not retracted...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Joseph Kony and his army face growing international pressure  so the change of tactic may be temporary...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The war has been good for an army anxious to recover a reputation damaged by the eastern Congo-Kinshasa interventions of a decade ago  ‘ghost soldier’ and procurement scandals and the failed hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     With only days to go before the start of the 2008 assault  disenchanted Ugandan officers leaked details of the operation which LRA chief Joseph Kony then obtained  enabling him to abandon his camps before the attack began...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     For now  the government talks less about the LRA  although it is yet to capture its leader  Joseph Kony  and has cut its UPDF presence in CAR to 500 this year...