Tusk Wars: Inside the LRA and the Bloody Business of Ivory
New field research from the Enough Project shows that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is weakened to an unprecedented point, counting only 120 armed fighters in its ranks, scattered across three countries in central Africa. Despite its weakened state, the LRA continues to pose a threat to local populations in Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and in South Sudan, with 150 recorded attacks and 500 abductions of civilians for the first eight months of 2015 and 200,000 people displaced ...
Too Far from Home: Demobilizing the Lord’s Resistance Army
This report describes the experiences of former LRA who have recently returned to northern Uganda, explaining their reasons for leaving the LRA ranks and the challenges faced throughout the demobilization period, the current status of the remaining LRA groups in Sudan, Congo, CAR, and recommendations to align existing efforts and provide greater incentives to encourage more LRA fighters to defect, disarm and come home ...
New U.S. LRA Strategy Might Soon Face First Serious Test
The U.S. Congress is scheduled to unveil a new strategy this week aimed at dismantling the Lord’s Resistance Army, just as we move into a season when LRA attacks have historically been the most frequent ...
Diplomacy and Demobilization to Dismantle the LRA
The debate on how to ‘deal’ with the Lord’s Resistance Army in the past 20 years has been increasingly polarized, falling alongside two lines of action: peace talks or war. But currently, the strategies for combating the LRA seem to lack an understanding of how the group operates ...
The Lord’s Resistance Army of Today
Based on extensive research in all areas where the LRA operates, as well as in northern Uganda where the LRA originated, this paper aims to shed light on the nature of the “new” LRA in the hope that some of the information presented here can help to finally bring an end to the conflict that is taking place outside of Uganda but which continues to affect northern Uganda also ...
On LRA, African Union Overestimates Military Might, Leaves Out Key Actor
At a high-level meeting in the capital of Central African Republic, representatives from across the region set out to devise a strategy for confronting the LRA. The effort was laudable but missed the mark ...
Where Exactly is Joseph Kony and Does It Really Matter?
“Only Mr. God knows,” is the short answer to Kony’s whereabouts, as a former LRA commander recently told Enough ...
General Damane goes to Khartoum?
Unconfirmed reports that a leader of rebel group from the Central African Republic, or CAR, recently traveled to Khartoum are troubling. Might he join forces with the LRA? ...
A New Militia Rises in South Sudan
A decision by the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly to arm and train the so-called Arrow Boys underlines the inability of South Sudan’s army to protect civilians while raising the risk that the new militia could constitute an effective private army for local politicians seeking influence ...
The LRA is Still Ugandan
he relatively large number of non- Ugandans in the LRA has led diplomats in the region to privately state that the LRA is no longer a Ugandan organization. This view is technically incorrect ...
