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Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

Fire in Parabongo IDP camp, Uganda
Date1987 – present
(37 years)
Location
Northern Uganda (until 2006), South Sudan, eastern DR Congo, Central African Republic
Status

Ongoing (Low-level)

  • Founder and leader of the LRA Joseph Kony goes into hiding
  • Senior LRA commander Dominic Ongwen surrenders to American forces in the Central African Republic and is tried at the Hague[8][9]
  • Majority of LRA installations and encampments located in South Sudan and Uganda abandoned and dismantled
  • Small scale LRA activity continues in eastern DR Congo, and the Central African Republic[1]
Belligerents
 Uganda
 Zaire (until 1997)
 DR Congo (from 1997)
 Central African Republic (from 2008)[1]
 South Sudan
 Arrow Boys
 UFDR
United Nations MONUC[2]
Wagner Group (since April 2024)[3]
Supported by:
 United States
(2011–2017)[4][5][6]		 Lord's Resistance Army
Supported by:
 Sudan (1994–2002)[7]
Allied Democratic Forces
Commanders and leaders

Uganda Yoweri Museveni
Uganda Robinah Nabbanja
Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Tshisekedi
Democratic Republic of the Congo Sama Lukonde
Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Central African Republic Félix Moloua
South Sudan Salva Kiir
United Nations Bintou Keita

Former:
 Joseph Kony
Vincent Otti Executed
Raska Lukwiya †
Okot Odhiambo †
Dominic Ongwen Surrendered
Alphonse Lamola
Doctor Achaye Surrendered
Units involved

Uganda UPDF
Democratic Republic of the Congo FARDC
Central African Republic FACA
SPLA

United States SOF		 No specific units
Strength

2002: Uganda 65,000−75,000[11]
2010: Uganda 46,800[12]
2014: Uganda 1,500[13]

United States 300 advisers[14]		 1990: 200−800[15]
1998: 6,000[15]
2007: 840−3,000[16]
2014: 240[17]
2022: 200−1,000[18]
Casualties and losses
Unknown ~600 killed (2009–2010)[19]
100,000+ killed[20]
400,000[21]–430,000+[22] displaced
Lord's Resistance
Army insurgency
Conflict history
Related articles

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militant religious extremist group, against the government of Uganda. Following the Ugandan Civil War, militant Joseph Kony formed the Lord's Resistance Army and launched an insurgency against the newly installed President Yoweri Museveni. The stated goal was to establish a Christian state based on the Ten Commandments. Currently, there is low-level LRA activity in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Kony proclaims himself the 'spokesperson' of God and a spirit medium.

The insurgency has become one of Africa's longest conflicts and has resulted in a lasting humanitarian crisis. The LRA has been accused by the International Criminal Court of widespread human rights violations, including mutilation, torture, slavery, rape, the abduction of civilians, the use of child soldiers, and a number of massacres.[23] By 2004, the LRA had abducted more than 20,000 children, caused the displacement of 1.5 million civilians, and killed an estimation of 100,000 civilians.[24][25][26][27]

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