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A high court in Gulu, Uganda, sentences former Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in prison on 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including enslavement, torture, and rape.
2024-10-25

Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Egypt for diplomatic talks, and will also visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2022-07-24

Gunmen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seize the villages of Tshanzu and Runyoni in North Kivu, near the borders with Uganda and Rwanda.
2021-11-8

Seven people are killed in an attack on the city of Beni, North Kivu, DR Congo by the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group, which crossed the border from Uganda.
2018-03-5

Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, appears before the International Criminal Court in a hearing to determine whether a criminal trial should go ahead.
2016-01-21

Ugandan rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda kill 36 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province.
2014-12-7

Uganda's military orders army units hunting for Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic to return to their bases, following political instability in the CAR. Meanwhile the United States has offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to his capture.
2013-04-4

11 members of a family are found dead in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo after being kidnapped by Ugandan Islamist rebels.
2011-02-14

Fears mount that the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, which has ties to the Sudanese government, is poised to destabilize South Sudan as it prepares for a referendum on independence.
2010-10-18

Human Rights Watch accuses the northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army of abducting and forcing the recruitment of at least 697 people during the last year and a half across central Africa.
2010-08-12