Lord's Resistance Army

At least 11 civilians and eight troops have died in attacks by Ugandan LRA rebels in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a local association said.

Chadian herdsmen killed at least 18 people in the Central African Republic after two of their own died in a brawl, officials said Wednesday.

The Sudanese army on Monday denied reports that the feared leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel group has found refuge in the western region of Darfur.

Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel chief Joseph Kony is believed to have fled into the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, President Yoweri Museveni told reporters Friday.

Congo wants UN peacekeepers out next year but top boss of peacekeeping ops says they're needed. The U.N. could start withdrawing troops from war-ravaged Congo this year, but the head of the world body's peacekeeping division said the soldiers should remain in the east, which is still being terrorized by Rwandan and Ugandan militias.

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has kidnapped at least 23 people from a village in Central African Republic, an army source told AFP on Wednesday.

Ugandan rebels kidnapped at least 40 people and wounded a soldier during an attack in the southwest of the Central African Republic, a Central African soldier said Monday.

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has kidnapped at least 10 people from villages in southeastern Central African Republic, an army source told AFP on Friday.

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has kidnapped at least 10 people from villages in the southeast of the Central African Republic, an army source told AFP on Friday.

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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Almost half the population of south Sudan is facing food shortages because of conflict and drought, a fourfold rise in the numbers needing aid since last year, officials said Tuesday.

Acting commander of Lord's Resistance Army killed by Ugandan army, military spokesman says. A Ugandan army spokesman says that a notorious rebel commander has been killed in Central African Republic.

Ugandan troops killed a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, effectively the number two of the brutal militia, in the Central African Republic, military and intelligence officials said Saturday.

Ugandan troops killed a top commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic, a military spokesman said Saturday.

The United Nations said Monday it will step its peacekeeping presence in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo over fears that a Ugandan rebel group could carry out further attacks on local people.

UN: Ugandan-led Lord's Resistance Army attacks in Sudan, Congo may be crimes against humanity. The U.N. on Monday accused the Ugandan-based Lord's Resistance Army of killing, mutilating and raping villagers in Sudan and Congo in what may have been crimes against humanity.

The UN's human rights chief demanded Monday the capture of Ugandan rebel leaders for crimes against humanity, as new reports catalogued an orgy of killings, torture and rape by the Lord's Resistance Army.

The UN's human rights chief called for the elusive leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army to be brought to justice for crimes against humanity after two new reports Monday catalogued an orgy of killings and torture.

The UN's rights chief said the Lord's Resistance Army should face charges of crimes against humanity, after her office catalogued atrocities against civilians in two new reports Monday.

A lawmaker from the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday expressed fears of an attack by Ugandan rebels at Christmas, as in 2008 when more than 400 people were killed.