happiness ChikwanhaKAMPALA. – US-backed African Union troops have killed a senior commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan army spokesperson said yesterday.US Special Forces have supported a Regional Task Force of African troops since 2011 to try to track down LRA leader Joseph Kony, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in a guerrilla war in Uganda and neighbouring states.
The group, which launched its uprising two decades ago, has moved from Uganda to the border region of DRC, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, where analysts say it could rebuild in the political chaos sweeping through the coun- try.
“We were alerted last week by our US partners about a group of 30 LRA fighters who were about to cross River Vovodo in south-eastern CAR,” said Uganda’s deputy army spokesperson, Major Robert Ngabirano.
A US Special Forces adviser in South Sudan, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said a US helicopter ferried Ugandan troops with the RTF into CAR’s remote Vovodo and Chinko river basin on November 22.
He did not give details about LRA members killed in the mission involving 20 Ugandan commandos with US personnel, although he put the number at five to 10 deaths. – Reuters.
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