Central Africa: Experts Discuss Hunt for LRA and Security-Sector Reform

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Washington, D.C. — The appearance of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Central African Republic and the lingering presence of rebel groups have overwhelmed the country's small military, regional officials said during an international roundtable discussion at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on April 6, 2012.

Continuing instability caused by the armed groups threaten any hope of creating security or development in the landlocked, poverty-ridden country, said Colonel Jean-Francis Bozize, the CAR's deputy minister of defense.

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