Uganda Kony

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.

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.

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.

Washington is sending more elite commandos and tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft to Uganda to help hunt for Joseph Kony, the fugitive warlord accused of rape, murder and the kidnapping of children.

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.

For some in the nonprofit world, the reaction to the success of an advocacy video about the African warlord Joseph Kony can be summed up in a word: envy.

Few faces evoke more hatred and fear in northern Uganda than Joseph Kony, one of Africa's most wanted men whose army of child soldiers preyed on this town for years and whose brutal legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight by a hugely popular U.S. video.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Washington is sending more elite commandos and tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft to Uganda to help hunt for Joseph Kony, the fugitive warlord accused of rape, murder and the kidnapping of children.

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.

For some in the nonprofit world, the reaction to the success of an advocacy video about the African warlord Joseph Kony can be summed up in a word: envy.

Few faces evoke more hatred and fear in northern Uganda than Joseph Kony, one of Africa's most wanted men whose army of child soldiers preyed on this town for years and whose brutal legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight by a hugely popular U.S. video.

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...

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.