In the news: AFRICOM, partners highlight multi-national efforts to counter the Lord's Resistance Army
A look at content produced by a group of journalists who visited Central and East Africa in April 2012 to report on the multi-national effort to counter the Lord's Resistance Army.
- Reporters on the trip visited Uganda and Central African Republic, where they were able to talk to government officials, UN and AU officials, aid agencies, U.S. Embassy officials, U.S. and partner nation military personnel, and local residents affected by the LRA. The trip was sponsored jointly by the Department of Defense and Department of State. Some of the journalists had the opportunity to visit U.S. AFRICOM headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, where they spoke with the commander, General Carter Ham, and the commander of SOCAFRICA, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Brian Losey. Their stories, compiled below, started running in print and online on April 29.
- May 5, 2012(Updated at 12:20 p.m. CET, 6:20 a.m. EST. New stories also were posted at the top of the last section on page 2.)Daily MonitorMay 3, 2012(No new stories)May 2, 2012
- AFN-Europe VideoProviding Aid in Uganda
- May 1, 2012
- BBC - Podcasts - BBC World Update: Daily CommuteDan Damon in East Africa, in search of Joseph Kony
- April 30, 2012
- AFRICOM revises its strategy in Africa during the hunt for Joseph KonyRFI (French language)
Analyst Delves Inside the Mind of LRAMatthew Brubacher, the Public Affairs Officer for the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), ha...
US forces join jungle search for KonyIn one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth - in what British explorers called Africa's "Zone of Inaccessibility" - Lord's Resist...
US soldiers in hunt for Joseph KonyThe US has sent 100 special forces soldiers to the Central African Republic to help co-ordinate the fight against the Lords' Resistance A...
Africa US Catching Kony - Suomenkuvalehtisoldier from the Central African Republic, right, looks across as U.S. Army special forces Captain Gregory, 29, from Texas, left, who wou...
Fugitive warlord, guerrillas elude U.S. troops and alliesOBO, Central African Republic - Six months after President Obama ordered 100 Special Forces troops to help capture warlord Joseph Kony, U...
US special forces continue search for KonyUgandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has been wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court since 2005. Kony and his Lord's Resis...
Kony Tracked by U.S. Forces in Central AfricaOne hundred of America's elite Special Operations troops, aided by night vision scopes and satellite imagery, are helping African forces ...
Endgame tricky in tracking down Joseph Kony in African jungleOBO, Central African Republic - It has to be one of the oddest matchups in U.S. military history: 100 of America's most elite special-ope...- Factbox - Hunt for Joseph Kony intensifies | ReutersMon Apr 30, 2012 1:01pm BST (Reuters) - The hunt for Africa's most wanted man, Joseph Kony, has intensified as U.S. special forces have j...
U.S. troops synch hi-tech and nomad intel in Kony huntOBO, Central African Republic (Reuters) - In a bare concrete room in a far-flung corner of Central African Republic, U.S. special forces ...
Uganda: 'Sudan supporting Kony'The Ugandan army says the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony is being supported and supplied by the Sudanese government. The...
Bigger Role for U.S. in Hunt for KonyOBO, Central African Republic-Somewhere in dense savannas and jungles spanning four African nations is Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed pro...
US special forces help in hunt for warlord Kony - San Jose Mercury NewsOBO, Central African Republic-Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on ...
U.S. spec ops upgrade Uganda's hunt for warlordhttp://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/04/ap-us-special-operations-upgrade-uganda-kony-lra-043012/ U.S. spec ops upgrade Uganda's hunt for wa...
U.S. lends support in hunt for notorious African warlordObo, Central African Republic (CNN) -- The lush, green forests of central Africa have long been the playground and refuge of the continen...
Omar Bashir renews support for KonyCol. Felix Kulayige says Kony is in Bahr Gazel, a Khartoum-controlled area. By Henry Mukasa The Government of Sudan has renewed support t...- April 29, 2012
