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Author: Ledio Cakaj

A Make or Break Time for Joseph Kony

A Make or Break Time for Joseph Kony
This is a critical time for Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, who needs to show his fighters that the LRA is more than just a personal survival vehicle ...

Top LRA Commander Moves to Southern Sudan

Top LRA Commander Moves to Southern Sudan
Testimony from former LRA fighters who were recently captured near Yambio in Sudan’s Western Equatoria state indicates that a notorious LRA commander, Dominic Ongwen, recently crossed into Sudan from the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

‘This is our land now’: Lord’s Resistance Army Attacks in Bas Uele, Northeastern Congo

'This is our land now': Lord’s Resistance Army Attacks in Bas Uele, Northeastern Congo
Groups from the Lord’s Resistance Army continue to attack civilians throughout central Africa. Attacks against civilians in a remote corner of Bas Uele district in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo go largely unnoticed. Unlike most areas where the LRA operates, attacks in northern Bas Uele are intended to empty the area—of strategic importance to the LRA’s cross-border movement to the Central African Republic, or CAR—of civilians. The lack of a meaningful military force to challenge the LRA has turned the northern region of Bas Uele into a veritable haven for the brutal rebel group ...

Field Dispatch: Disturbing Developments in the Hunt for Kony

Field Dispatch: Disturbing Developments in the Hunt for Kony
Although the details remain highly murky, it appears that the Ugandan army suffered a significant loss of troops in the Central African Republic, or CAR, as those forces continue to hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army ...

On the Heels of Kony: The Untold Tragedy Unfolding in the Central African Republic

On the Heels of Kony: The Untold Tragedy Unfolding in the Central African Republic
Enough Field Research Ledio Cakaj follows the violent path of Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army ...

In Congo, U.N. Official’s Assurances Ring Hollow as Peacekeepers Prepare to Withdraw

In Congo, U.N. Official’s Assurances Ring Hollow as Peacekeepers Prepare to Withdraw
In an isolated corner of northeastern Congo, where MONUC has helped deter attacks by the LRA and established fragile security, civilians brace for the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers ...

Taking the Lord’s Resistance Army Seriously

Taking the Lord's Resistance Army Seriously
To be successful, policymakers charged with designing the new strategy for ending the Lord's Resistance Army need to understand why the Ugandan government has failed to defeat the LRA in the past 20 years ...

Letter from CAR: ‘We Fear for Our Lives. Please Help Us’

Letter from CAR: ‘We Fear for Our Lives. Please Help Us’
During a research trip to the Central African Republic, or CAR, in March, Mr. Moise-Augustine Goroth, a local official in the town of Mboki gave me a letter he wanted the world to see ...

Peace Talks with the LRA are Unrealistic, For Now

Peace Talks with the LRA are Unrealistic, For Now
As landmark legislation written to help end the LRA insurgency waits to be signed into law by President Obama, the debate about on how to deal with the Lord’s Resistance Army has intensified. The question at the heart of this argument is whether peace talks with the LRA can end the violence; for now the answer is no ...

LRA Launches Spate of Attacks in South Sudan

South Sudan
LRA Launches Spate of Attacks in South Sudan
The most recent LRA attack in South Sudan happened yesterday, May 16, 2010. A source on the ground told Enough that between 30 and 40 LRA rebels attacked near the town of Tambura, close to the borders with the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...