Child Soldiers

President Obama decided to deploy approximately one-hundred military trainers and advisors on a mission in Uganda to assist in the Ugandan Government’s fight against the Ugandan based rebel force the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its leader, Joseph Kony. The State Department has designated the Lord’s Resistance Army as a terrorist organization while later, in 2008, the United States Treasury Department added Joseph Kony to its list of ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’. This move is...Read Full Story

Over 30 U.S  Special Forces plotting to get one of the world’s most elusive and sadistic rebels Joseph Kony arrived in Africa. The U.S. troops arrived two months ago and by most accounts have yet to undertake any military actions. But their mere presence has transformed this tattered out-of-the-way enclave of Congolese refugees, Ugandan soldiers [...]Read Full Story

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

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

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

 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

Has Obama Just Kicked Off Another Oil War — This Time in Africa? Here’s what is likely behind Obama’s decision to send special forces to Uganda. November 8, 2011  | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. On Friday, October 14, President Barack Obama announced he would be sending 100 Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) forces to Uganda to “remove from the battlefield” (meaning...Read Full Story

For years the Lords Resistance Army has terrorized Uganda. Its soldiers (often young boys) have savagely attacked, killed, raped and mutilated the men, women and children of Uganda. Several thousand have paid the price and thousands more were forced from their homes. Their leader claims to have God on his side (like all who commit atrocities) and he’s managed to escape the warrants and bounties on his head. The Obama administration had taken steps to help assist local forces but local...Read Full Story

For years the Lords Resistance Army has terrorized Uganda. Its soldiers (often young boys) have savagely attacked, killed, raped and mutilated the men, women and children of Uganda. Several thousand have paid the price and thousands more were forced from their homes. Their leader claims to have God on his side (like all who commit atrocities) and he’s managed to escape the warrants and bounties on his head. The Obama administration had taken steps to help assist local forces but local...Read Full Story

Based on recent trends on Twitter and Google, it’s obvious that many of you are wondering, “Why the heck are we sending 100 American troops to Uganda?” Well, in the hopes of answering that question, I thought the best place to start would be the official letter from President Obama to Speaker Boehner explaining the administrations actions, followed by a translation of what the White House actually meant. First, the official letter: The White House Office of the Press Secretary For...Read Full Story