Lords Resistance Army

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  LRA Used Brutality To Train Child Fighters, Prosecutors Say

  International prosecutors accused a former Lord's Resistance Army commander on Thursday of using rape and brutality to turn children the LRA had abducted into sex slaves or soldiers for its long campaign against Uganda's government.

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  Abductions by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army Rebels on The Rise: UN

  Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels have launched a string of attacks across central Africa with a "steady increase" in abductions, the United Nations said in a report seen today.

• Uganda Street Kids 'Abused by Police': Rights Group

  Street children in Uganda suffer from systematic abuse by the country's police and other officials, including beatings and sex attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.

• Ugandan Army Kills Ex-Rebels in Central Africa Mix-Up

  Ugandan troops have killed at least 15 former rebels from the Central African Republic after mistaking them for fighters of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, police has said.

• Elephants poached by fugitives for survival in Africa

  Members of a militia run by fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony are killing elephants across Central Africa to support Kony's struggling group, according to a report by watchdog organizations that are urging the expansion of programs to encourage defections from the Lord's Resistance Army.

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  Anti-Kony group releases follow-up to viral video

  The video encourages viewers to see themselves as global citizens that need to see Kony and his army brought to justice.

• Top Joseph Kony commander captured: Official

  A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border.

• International manhunt has Kony on the run: UN

  Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted men, is having to move nearly every day as hunters close in on the African guerrilla leader who may now be in Darfur, a top UN envoy said on Friday. Defectors have also reported that the Lord's Resistance Army chief is becoming increasingly unstable, Abou Moussa, UN special representative for Central Afri...

• Kony's days of freedom are 'numbered': US lawmaker

  Wanted Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony's days as a free man are "numbered," a US lawmaker said on Wednesday, adding that the "noose is tightening" on the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

• International Criminal Court prosecutor: Kony will be arrested in 2012

  The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he has "no doubt" that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord's Resistance Army leader.

• Anti-Kony group releases follow-up to viral video

  The video encourages viewers to see themselves as global citizens that need to see Kony and his army brought to justice.

• How the Joseph Kony video went viral

  Since three young filmmakers first traveled to Uganda in 2003, they have been determined to use film and activism to help stop the rebel leader Joseph Kony's brutal tactics and the use of children as soldiers. But it was not until this week that their nonprofit organization, Invisible Children, helped make Mr. Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resista...

• Campaign against Joseph Kony, a Ugandan warlord, sweeps Internet

  A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego.