The LRA Crisis Tracker organisation says the group carried out 42 attacks in the past year, leaving one dead and 163 abducted, mainly in the remote DRC-CAR-South Sudan border areas
4 February 2021By AFP
2 min 17Approximate reading time One of Africa’s longest-surviving rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has terrorised parts of central Africa for 35 years. Its leaders are violent pariahs and fugitives from international justice, who were once hunted by US special forces and African armies. Founder Joseph Kony remains on the loose, but other key commanders have died or turned themselves in, among them Dominic Ongwen who was found guilty on Thursday of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. – The LRA and Museveni – The LRA began as a rebellion against the takeover of Uganda by rebel leader Yoweri Museveni in 1986. This followed in a tradition of armed movements led by spiritual leaders among the northern Acholi people.
4 February 2021By AFP
2 min 18Approximate reading time One of Africa’s longest-surviving rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has terrorised parts of central Africa for 35 years. Its leaders are violent pariahs and fugitives from international justice, who were once hunted by US special forces and African armies. Founder Joseph Kony remains on the loose, but other key commanders have died or turned themselves in, among them Dominic Ongwen who was found guilty on Thursday of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. – The LRA and Museveni – The LRA began as a rebellion against the takeover of Uganda by rebel leader Yoweri Museveni in 1986. This followed in a tradition of armed movements led by spiritual leaders among the northern Acholi people.
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Atlantic man sentenced for role in fatal Missouri boat crash
A southwest Iowa man is sentenced for his role in a 2019 boat crash that killed a Missouri man.
Sixty-two-year-old Kelly Wise of Atlantic pleaded guilty to boating while intoxicated for the boat crash at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Wise was driving a boat when it slammed into another boat with 39-year-old Jason Russell of Eugene, Missouri aboard.
Russell was thrown from the boat he was in and did not resurface. His body was found the next day. Four others were injured.