The last throes of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army
By DW
26 January 2022 |
6:40 am
After being driven out of Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army ran riot in the Central African Republic, where it behaved more like a criminal gang than a terrorist militia. Now the LRA's days seem to be numbered.
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