Women and children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army guerrilla group are suffering from hunger because the wanted band of fighters has stopped stealing food from villages to avoid being detected by a military manhunt, Ugandan military officials said Monday.Read Full Story
Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda. The LRA opened its war against the Ugandan government in 1987. In the mid-1990s, the commander of the LRA, Joseph Kony...Read Full Story
In 2008, dozens of Lord's Resistance Army fighters emerge from the southern Sudan's border.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Lord's Resistance Army has terrorized people in Africa for two decades
The group is led by the elusive Joseph Kony
Experts point to Kony's strategies and politics as some reasons why he is still at large
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama announced recently that about 100 U.S. troops are being deployed to Central Africa to help "apprehend and remove" the elusive Joseph...Read Full Story
A call to pray for God’s intervention in the LRA crisis
By Elizabeth Kendal Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB) 135 Special to ASSIST News Service
AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a blasphemous cult militia established in the late 1980s ostensibly to fight for the rights of the long-marginalised and abused Acholi people of Northern Uganda. The LRA quickly lost its political focus, becoming infamous for its unrivalled brutality, most of it directly...Read Full Story
The belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states – underestimates its resilience and overestimates the unity and capability of the forces ranged against it, say analysts. The LRA is seen as being in “survival mode”. It [...]
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The Robert H. Jackson Center will host a screening of the film KONY 2012 at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 1. The Invisible Children organization will present the film, which focuses on Joseph Kony, a warlord with an international arrest warrant, and advocates ...
Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) will this year offer bursaries to about 200 needy students from war-torn northern Uganda to undergo university and secondary school education under their Legacy Sponsorship Programme. According to ICU publicist, Florence ...
This site is dedicated to gathering information on the issue of child soldiers, including developments in the conflicts in which combats under the age of 18 are being used and what efforts are being made to combat the use of child soldiers and assist children who are affected by conflicts in which child soldiers are used.
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This site is dedicated to gathering information on the issue of child soldiers, including developments in the conflicts in which combats under the age of 18 are being used and what efforts are being made to combat the use of child soldiers and assist children who are affected by conflicts in which child soldiers are used.
According to Amnesty International: “Approximately 250,000 children under the age of 18 are thought to be fighting in conflicts around the world, and hundreds of thousands more are members of armed forces who could be sent into combat at any time. Although most child soldiers are between 15 and 18 years old, significant recruitment starts at the age of 10 and the use of even younger children has been recorded”. These children may work as porters, cooks, soldiers, and sex slaves, and are often forced to commit atrocities. This abuse of children is carried out both by governments and opposition groups. Currently child soldiers are being used in a number of conflicts including the conflicts in Uganda and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.