News | Joseph Kony
| Rebel Group LRA Seeks New Peace Talks With Ugandan Government | |
VOA News - September 24, 2009 | |
 | Elusive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has renewed contact with the Ugandan government, seeking an immediate ceasefire and resumption of peace talks. Kony's militants are terrorizing the local populations across a number of central African nations. |
| Ugandan army withdraws from DR Congo | |
XINHUA - March 15, 2009 | |
 | The first batch of about 400 Ugandan soldiers withdrawing from the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) arrived at Entebbe airport on Sunday evening, marking the end of a three month joint military operation to hunt down Ugandan rebels. |
| DR Congo says foreign troops to pull back | |
XINHUA - February 22, 2009 | |
 | Rwanda, Uganda and southern Sudan will withdraw their troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) next week after joint operations against insurgency in the war-torn central African country, the government announced here on Saturday. |
| Officials: LRA Threat 'Gravely Reduced' | |
VOA News - February 15, 2009 | |
| Officials say Ugandan rebels who have terrorized central Africa are getting weaker in the face of a regional military offensive. A spokesman for the joint military effort, Captain Deo Akiki, says the Lord's Resistance Army's capacity to kill and abduct people has been, in his words, gravely reduced. |
| Many Congolese Flee to Southern Sudan | |
VOA News - February 10, 2009 | |
| Thousands of people fleeing rebel attacks in the northeastern DRC are seeking safe haven in South Sudan. Members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda have been attacking towns and villages in Orientale Province, killing at least 900 people. Humanitarian agencies have been trying to determine the number and location of the displaced people in the province. |
| Survivors of Ugandan rebel massacres in DR Congo seek help from UN | |
UN News - February 10, 2009 | |
 | Angry and traumatized survivors of massacres by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed nearly 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today sought shelter, food, medicine – and justice – from the top United Nations relief official. |
| Uganda Reports Arrest of Rebel Commander | |
VOA News - January 28, 2009 | |
 | State-owned radio in Uganda reports that troops have arrested a top commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. The report says Okot Odhiambo was captured in Congo's Garamba Forest as he tried to escape to the Central African Republic. |
| LRA Continues Attacks in Eastern Congo | |
VOA News - January 13, 2009 | |
| The U.N. refugee agency says it is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as attacks by the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, continue. The UNHCR says the number of deaths, abductions and homeless people is growing. |
| Ugandan rebels said to massacre civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - December 26, 2008 | |
| According to the reports, the rebels, fleeing a joint military operation by the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush them out of a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, committed grave violations of human rights against civilians in Faradje, 120 kilometres east of Dungu, killing the villagers, plundering and destroying houses. |
| Ugandan army deploys more troops in NE DR Congo to fight LRA rebels | |
XINHUA - December 19, 2008 | |
| The Ugandan military said on Thursday that it is deploying more troops in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to beef up an ongoing offensive against the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). |
