| Description |
1 online resource (iii, 33 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file) |
| Series |
Africa report ; no. 157 |
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ICG Africa report ; no. 157.
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| Contents |
Operation Lightning Thunder : a military fiasco -- The hunt for the LRA -- A new protection-based strategy -- Getting to the root of the problem in northern Uganda -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has become a regional problem that requires a regional solution. Operation Lightning Thunder, launched in December 2008, is the Ugandan army's latest attempt to crush militarily the one-time northern Ugandan rebel group. It has been a failure. After the initial attack, small groups of LRA fighters dispersed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR), where they survive by preying on civilians. National security forces are too weak to protect their own people, while the Ugandan army, with U.S. support, is focused on hunting Joseph Kony, the group's leader. The Ugandans have eroded the LRA's numbers and made its communications more difficult. But LRA fighters, though disorganised, remain a terrible danger to civilians in this mostly ungoverned frontier zone. National armies, the UN and civilians themselves need to pool intelligence and coordinate their efforts in new ways if they are to end the LRA once and for all |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 15, 2011) |
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"28 April 2010." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Lord's Resistance Army.
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| SUBJECT |
Lord's Resistance Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00735014 |
| Subject |
Political stability -- Uganda
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Political stability -- Africa, Central
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Politics and government
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Political stability.
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| SUBJECT |
Uganda -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Africa, Central -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Central Africa.
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Uganda.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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