Uganda starts withdrawing troops from CAR as Joseph Kony remains at large
Uganda has been leading a US-supported African Union regional task force tracking the Lords Resistance Army and Kony, who has been indicted by the ICC
Kampala — The Ugandan military said on Wednesday that it had begun withdrawing troops from Central African Republic (CAR), where it had been pursuing rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), saying it had accomplished its mission — although Kony remains at large. Uganda has been leading a US-supported African Union regional task force tracking the LRA and Kony, who has been indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court. But it has been unable to capture him. For nearly two decades the rebels battled the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni from bases in the north of the country and across the border in what is now South Sudan. They were notorious for their brutality and for kidnapping children for use as fighters and sex slaves. In about 2005, they were ejected from those bases and retreated to a lawless patch of jungle straddling the borders of South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, where the task force co...
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