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Ivory Trade Funding Central Africa Rebel Groups

The U.S. Department of State and several international organizations say rebel groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, are using poaching and the illegal sale of ivory as a means to fund their operations.

VIDEO: Illegal Ivory Trade Linked to LRA Rebel Group

Central Africa: Report Links Illegal Ivory Trade to Kony's LRA

ENOUGH, 3 June 2013

Human rights groups released a multimedia report documenting new evidence that the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, has turned to elephant poaching as a means to fuel its… Read more »
Uganda: Demanding That Lord's Resistance Army End All Attacks, Security Council

UN, 29 May 2013

As it considered the situation in the Central African subregion today, the Security Council reiterated its strong condemnation of the attacks and atrocities, as well as violations… Read more »
Uganda: LRA Poaching Elephants in Central Africa - UN

New Vision, 21 May 2013

Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the United Nations said on… Read more »
Africa: Incessant Killing of Elephants Is Killing Africa's Future

IPS, 31 May 2013

More civil unrest in Africa, another coup d'état, more reports of child soldiers in the front line, involvement of foreign troops, the poorest of the poor losing what little… Read more »
Central Africa: Illegal Ivory Trade Funds Rebels in Central Africa

VOA, 31 May 2013

International and Cameroonian wildlife organizations blame rebel groups for the slaughter of almost 12,000 elephants in Central African countries since 2004. They say the rebels… Read more »