The LRA is now thought to number between 200 and 300 fighters. In recent years the group has carried out attacks in the DRC, South Sudan, and the CAR. Although the group is reportedly in decline, the LRA abducted 121 people and killed at least three others between April and June 2015, according to the UN.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa. Its origins were in the Ugandan insurgency (1986–1994) against President Yoweri Museveni, during which Joseph Kony founded the LRA in 1987.

2009年1月20日 · Under increasing pressure, LRA’s leader Joseph Kony ordered the LRA to withdraw completely from Uganda in 2005 and 2006 and move west into the border region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR), and what would become the Republic of South Sudan.

2025年3月12日 · Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), militant group led by Joseph Kony that has waged a war of attrition against the government and peoples of Uganda and nearby countries since the late 1980s. Unlike most antistate terrorists, the LRA has been largely devoid of any national vision or unifying social

2016年5月18日 · A randomized control trial conducted in LRA affected areas in DRC for war-affected boys, including former child soldiers, found that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) modified to be culturally relevant, proved effective in improving mental health [41].

The LRA represents a regional problem that keenly poses the question of how to protect the civilian populations of the regions bordering the DRC. This problem requires political, military and judicial responses.

2009年1月20日 · As of August 2011, the UN estimated 440,000 people were displaced or living as refugees across CAR, the DRC, and South Sudan due to LRA activity. The remaining LRA elements have continued to commit attacks across the three countries.

2014年12月16日 · The clearest example is the US embassy in the DRC, which considered the LRA threat over-emphasized and preferred to prioritize the problems in the Kivu provinces. 115 In other words, the centre of gravity of the LRA policy was clearly Washington, even within American foreign policy structures.

2021年2月4日 · While the world reflects on the verdict, an early warning system (EWS) managed by international aid organization Invisible Children and its local partners has documented a spree of abductions by remaining LRA commanders in eastern CAR and northern DRC, including indicted LRA leader Joseph Kony.

2009年12月21日 · Driven out of Uganda in 2002 and South Sudan in 2005, the LRA took refuge in the DRC’s Garamba National Park, in the northeastern part of Orientale Province, where they carried out occasional human rights violations consistent with their practice ever since they first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986.