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Central Africa:
Few Cheers As Obama Enlists in Kony War
East African, 6 November 2011
Despite the Obama administration's string of foreign-policy successes, commentators inside and outside the US Congress are expressing scepticism about the president's dispatch of… Read more »
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Uganda:
Will American Hand Finally Deliver Kony?
Independent (Kampala), 29 October 2011
If you asked Gen Ham Carter, commander of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), he will tell you that all evil in this world "exists in the person of Joseph Kony". On July 19, Gen Ham… Read more »
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Nigeria:
United States Looming Invasion of Central Africa (Two)
The Moment, 29 October 2011
IN the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, perhaps, owing to global outcry over the despicable role it played in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the United States has… Read more »
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Africa:
The United States and the Lord's Resistance Army
Fahamu, 27 October 2011
With the US announcing that 100 troops will be sent to help combat the Lord's Resistance Army, Gary K. Busch unpacks the history of US intervention in Africa - and points to recent… Read more »
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Uganda:
U.S. Troops to Advise Front-Line Units On Rebels
RNW Africa, 26 October 2011
US special forces will be deployed with front-line units as advisors to central African militaries hunting down the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, a senior US official… Read more »
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Central Africa:
U.S. Troops to Uganda and Kony Off to Darfur?
RNW Africa, 24 October 2011
The decision to deploy 100 US troops to Uganda in order to contribute to efforts in the "hunt for Joseph Kony" has been, by and large, positively received. Read more »
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Uganda:
Is the U.S. Army Trying to 'Use' UPDF?
Monitor, 23 October 2011
It has recently been announced that the US government is 'deploying' over 100 specialised troops from the US Army to help trace and 'remove' the Lord's Resistance Army leader… Read more »
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East Africa:
Obama's Move to Fight Kony Good
The Star, 20 October 2011
Barack Obama is already getting flak from the right wing media in the US over his decision announced Friday October 14 to send a hundred US "combat equipped" troops to Uganda to… Read more »
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South Africa:
The U.S. Power Grab in Africa
SACSIS, 21 October 2011
Beware of strangers bearing gifts. Post-modern amazon and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally landed in Tripoli - on a military jet - to lavish praise on the… Read more »
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Uganda:
Barack Obama - Why I've Sent Us Forces to Uganda
Observer, 19 October 2011
Last week, US President Barack Obama announced deployment of an estimated 100 US military personnel to help Ugandan forces remove LRA commander Joseph Kony and some of his top… Read more »
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Uganda:
The Rebel Leader Who Sparked U.S. Intervention
Nation, 18 October 2011
Sometime in the late 1970s, a poor Ugandan teenager contracted a fever that gave him hallucinations. He ran to the hills, where he stayed for days without contact with his family… Read more »
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Kenya:
Al Shabaab War Poses Economic Risks
The Star, 17 October 2011
Sheik Hassan Yacqub Ali, the spokesman of Al-Shabaab Administration in Kismayo said they would confront any intervention from the Kenyan military and added that they would attack… Read more »
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Africa:
U.S. Troops Hunt Al Qaeda on Continent, Not the LRA
Daily Maverick, 17 October 2011
Obama has authorised combat-ready troops to take on Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, a first for the US military since the debacle of "Blackhawk Down" in Somalia. But… Read more »
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Uganda:
UPDF Welcomes U.S Deployment
New Vision, 15 October 2011
The UPDF has welcomed President Barack Obama's decision to send 100 US combat troops to Uganda to hunt for the fugitive rebel Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. Read more »
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Uganda:
Obama Sends U.S. Military Advisers to Help Track LRA's Kony
IPS, 15 October 2011
In his latest military intervention overseas, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is dispatching about 100 "combat-equipped" military personnel to East Africa to… Read more »
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Uganda:
Govt Welcomes U.S. Troops to Hunt Rebel Leaders
RNW Africa, 15 October 2011
Uganda said Saturday it welcomed US combat troops to help its forces battle the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal rebel force whose leaders are international war-crime fugitives. Read more »
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Central Africa:
Obama Sends 'Combat-Equipped U.S. Forces' to Region
White House, 14 October 2011
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Uganda:
Wiki - Shs12 Billion Aid Saves Anti-Kony War From Collapse
Monitor, 19 September 2011
The military offensive against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels inside the Democratic Republic of Congo, which government says is progressing well, had suffered serious… Read more »
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Central Africa:
Will Obama's Plan to Beat Ugandan Rebels Work?
UNIRIN, 12 January 2011
US President Barack Obama's policy document on the Lord's Resistance Army presented a blunt critique of the efforts to tackle the Ugandan rebel group, but some argue it contained… Read more »