(extract) The suspension of the Ugandan army operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) following the overthrow of the CAR regime in March 2013 may have given some respite to the LRA, which by...
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(extract) The suspension of the Ugandan army operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) following the overthrow of the CAR regime in March 2013 may have given some respite to the LRA, which by...
Karamoja, in the north-east of Uganda and one of the country’s least developed regions, has been plagued by decades-long inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic violence. The availability and use of small arms...
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On 29 June 2012 the United Nations (UN) Security Council held a meeting to discuss the threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to populations in South Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR),...
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As part of the 2013 defense appropriations bill, the United States Senate voted on 17 May to allocate USD 50 million to ‘enhance and expand’ intelligence and surveillance support for US Special...
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On 12 May, the Ugandan army said it had captured Caesar Achellam, a senior commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Achellam, who held the rank of general in the LRA, is believed to have been...
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In early March, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its leader Joseph Kony became global talking points after a video posted on the Internet by the US-based NGO Invisible Children went viral...
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By 22 February 2012, at least 30 US military advisers were based in the town of Obo in the Central African Republic (CAR). The Americans set up base away from the Ugandan barracks in the town, in an...
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Following US President Barack Obama's decision to deploy US forces to Central Africa, advisers from the US military, deployed to assist the Ugandan army in its operation against the Lord’s Resistance...
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Following US President Barack Obama's decision to deploy US forces to Central Africa, the first troops had arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) by early December 2011. According to US...
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On 14 October 2011 US president Barack Obama stated in a letter to Congress: 'I authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional...
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By September 2011 the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, and his top deputies were believed to have moved from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into the Central African...
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Current status The US-supported military offensive conducted by the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) against the LRA since December 2008 has had mixed results. LRA communications and operational...
By James Bevan Uganda's Karamoja region is, for many people, the exemplar of Africa's pastoral wars. It hosts a number of sub-clans that, together, comprise the Karimojong- a population fractured by...