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Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
From Sudan Tribune by Richard Ruati, Sunday, November 22, 2009: Ugandan security forces kill senior LRA commander in CAR November 22, 2009 (Kampala) — The Ugandan security forces in Central Africa Republic have killed a senior LRA rebels Commander near Obo town in CAR, an Army spokesperson has confirmed. Speaking by telephone hookup from Kampala the UPDF Spokesperson Lt Col Felix Kulayigye told...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
From The New Vision , Uganda LRA’s Joseph Kony to seek protection from Sudan army Sunday, November 22, 2009 By Els De Temmerman Photo: Arop showing where two bullets are still stuck in his stomach LRA leader Joseph Kony has instructed his troops to move into Darfur and report to the first detachment of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) seeking protection and logistical support. This was revealed...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have returned to Gulu, northern Uganda.
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Congo Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Date: 18 Nov 2009 (via ReliefWeb ) DR Congo: Calls for LRA to face Congo charges Campaigners want ICC to indict Ugandan rebels for crimes they are alleged to have committed in DRC. By Melanie Gouby in the Hague and Gabriel Shabani in Kinshasa (AR No 236, 18-Nov-09) Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.
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Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Commentary by Peter Eichstaedt from his blog post - The good, the bad, the ugly - Saturday, November 14, 2009. Excerpts: This past week, Norah Anek, the 86-year-old mother of Joseph Kony, the leader of the militia-cult Lord's Resistance Army, passed away. She was buried not far from where she gave birth to Kony in the town of Adek, about an hour's drive southeast of Gulu in northern Uganda. According...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Maj. Gen. James Bunanukye Kazini is perhaps the only General of the UPDF who has fought in every single major war--internal and external--since President Museveni captured power in 1986. He fought against the West Nile-based Uganda National Rescue Front II of Ali Bamuze, the Lord's Resistance Army of Joseph Kony, the Allied Democratic Forces in his Kasese home area, and above all, three battles with...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The mother of Joseph Kony, one of Africa's most brutal militia leaders, has issued a dying wish to her son, according to a nurse at her side: make peace and end 20 years of murder, mutilation and child kidnap. Norah Anek, 86, the mother of the leader of the Lords Resistance Army, which has waged one of Africa's longest and most violent rebellions in northern Uganda, urged her son to lay down his arms,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Lord Resistance Army (LRA) has been weakened but is not defeated, army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima said yesterday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Once upon a time, a military coup took place in the East African nation of Uganda, during the reign of returnee president, Milton Oboteh. That was in the early 1980's. General Tito Orkelo had overthrown Mr. Oboteh in that coup d'etat.
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) is a universal and essential part of any post-conflict peacebuilding process. However, when DDR is poorly planned it can undermine programming and work against reintegrating former combatants. Northern Uganda’s reintegration process demonstrates some of the unintended consequences of ad hoc initiatives that lack a coherent strategy. Since 1986...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From Sudan Radio Service , 03 November 2009: LRA rebels surrender in Yei (Yei) - More than forty Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army surrendered to authorities in Yei county, Central Equatoria state last week. The Commissioner of Yei county, David Lokonga confirmed that pockets of LRA rebels have been handing themselves in since September this year. [David lokonga 1 -Eng/Arabic]: “Starting...
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Congo Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Report from Sudan Tribune by Richard Ruati Friday 6 November 2009: Leading LRA rebel commander surrenders to Ugandan army November 5, 2009 (KAMPALA) — Lt Col Charles Arop, a leading Ugandan LRA rebels (the Army of the Lord’s Resistance), has decided to surrender himself to the Ugandan army. Arop is responsible for a bloodbath perpetrated on Christmas Day last year in Faradje in the DRC...
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