Joseph Kony: African Union brigade to hunt down LRA leader

Source: The Guardian

The African Union has announced that it will form a 5,000-strong brigade to hunt down Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), believed to be hiding in the jungles of central Africa.

The brigade will be led by Uganda and include troops from the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, the countries that have been ravaged by LRA raids.

"We need to stop Kony with hardware – with military hardware in this case. We're on a mission," an African Union envoy, Francisco Madeira, told reporters in Entebbe, Uganda. "We need to stop Kony."

The announcement came a few weeks after a video made by a US advocacy group was seen by millions of people around the world. The video, Kony2012, by Invisible Children, was viewed by more than 100 million people, generating interest in Kony who has used his militia to terrorise communities throughout central Africa for more than 14 years.

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