Uganda: Obama Signs Law That Places Cash Reward for Kony Arrest

16 January 2013

US President Barack Obama has assented to an amended law which places a cash reward for whoever arrests the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders.

The "Department of State Rewards Program Update and Technical Corrections Act of 2012," was introduced in February last year by the representative from California Ed Royce, who chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade.

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