Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have relied on borderlands and declining political will to avoid detection.
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War does not end when the fighting stops or peace agreements are signed. Its harms are transmitted across generations.
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Ongwen’s case ends the blanket amnesty that African courts have always granted ex-child abductees over war crimes
Fresh efforts to capture Kony comes amid growing influence of Russia in the Central African Republic.
Former fighters described Ongwen as a model fighter and an effective commander – but testimony in his trial detailed the former child soldier’s alleged personal role in the rape of underage women.
Their mothers were forcibly married or raped during Uganda’s vicious civil war. Now these children are ‘non people’.
Photographs give unprecedented insight into the lives and humanity of those involved in the Ugandan rebel movement.
African leaders who have sought ICC involvement have all seen the court as being beneficial to the survival of their governments.
Even ‘madmen’ have their motives for fighting.
On January 6 2014, the US State Department reported that a Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander had handed himself in at an American base in the Central African Republic. The man identified himself as…
The government of the Central African Republic claims to be in talks with one of the world’s most enigmatic African guerrilla leaders, Joseph Kony. But Kony has entered talks before with no intention of…
Earlier this week, the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry, announced a US$5 million reward for information leading to the arrest, transfer and conviction of notorious African warlord Joseph Kony. On…
On the morning of the 18th of March, Bosco “The Terminator” Ntaganda presented himself at the US Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, and requested that he be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC…
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