A ceasefire was announced and for six weeks talks continued between a government delegation under Betty Bigombe the former Minister for Pacification in the North and some of LRA boss Joseph Kony's commanders...
Success depends both on Joseph Kony's NIF sponsors in Khartoum and on whether Kony and his LRA have rational objectives that could be incorporated into a reasonable solution...
After a brief rest the Lord's Resistance Army under Joseph Kony has slaughtered more defenceless civilians in displaced camps in northern Uganda...
What is certain is that the LRA's leader Joseph Kony remains armed active and living in National Islamic Front-controlled areas of southern Sudan...
This disrupts SPLA relations with Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni is increasingly criticised as Joseph Kony's rebels commit renewed atrocities...
Museveni had declared that LRA leader Joseph Kony's 'incursion into Teso region has been defeated' (AC Vol 44 No 19)...
Besigye's stand against Museveni in the 2001 elections converted him into public enemy number one and is now routinely blamed for everything from Kigali's military posturing against Uganda to Joseph Kony's killer rebels in northern Uganda...
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...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Now based in Gulu in Northern Uganda Museveni and Army Commander General James Kazini have staked their reputations on defeating Joseph Kony and the LRA...
At daybreak on 5 August a group of Lord's Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony attacked a refugee camp at Acol-Pii in northern Uganda killed over 50 civilians and stole food drugs and military equipment...
Joseph Kony's rebels have again turned Acholiland into a killing field...