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Uganda

Joseph Kony

Date of Birth: 1961


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Hall of Mirrors

Despite December's agreement between the Sudanese and Ugandan governments the Khartoum-supported Lord's Resistance Army (led by Joseph Kony who is based near Juba) continues to commit atrocities like those once typical of Mozambique's Resistência Nacional Moçambicana and more recently of Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone...


One way street

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony and backed by the Sudanese government has been fighting in the north for the last ten years...


Who's who in the NRM

Dropped as Army Commander because of 'indiscipline' but returned as Commander of the Reserve Force and political and military advisor on the North where he had fought Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army until 1998; instrumental in the Congo-Kinshasa campaign...


Other infernos

'No illusions on Sudan' There were reports that after talks with Carter and US State Department officials LRA leader Joseph Kony had been persuaded to move to a country outside the region...


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Africa scrambles for Africa

So far no fundamentalist Christian groups have formed rebel militias like their Islamist opponents (such as Somalia’s Al Itahad al Islami) although several ethnic and regional militias claim adherence to Christianity including Ugandan Joseph Kony's Lord’s Resistance Army – which is backed by the Islamist government in Khartoum...


Asking the people

While the government's battles with Joseph Kony's Sudan-backed Lord's Resistance Army may be cynically regarded by many in Kampala as a problem for the Acholi the continuing attacks by the West Nile Bank Front and Allied Democratic Forces in the north-west and west highlight Ugandan military weaknesses...


Entrenched and overstretched

Kabila's rapprochement with Khartoum and his alleged support for Uganda's own rebels - the ADF West Nile Front and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army - have brought Uganda close to an admission that its interests extend beyond border security concerns...


The border war

Symptomatic of this is the rumbling war in the north between the government's Uganda People's Defence Force and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army...


Museveni's backyard

Uganda's three main armed rebel groups In the north-east the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is led by Joseph Kony armed and sheltered by the NIF and inspired by a bizarre fanatical version of Christianity: although the LRA claims it wants to establish a regime built on the Biblical Ten Commandments it routinely cuts off victims' ears noses and tongues...


Tough Tinyefuza

Uganda's most prestigious – and officially retired – officer Salim Saleh (Museveni's half-brother) was appointed six months ago to help sort out the war in the north against the HSM's successor Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army...


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