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Victims of LRA Captivity Remembered

Posted by langoconference on March 30, 2009 at 4:53 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Lira March 29, 2009


 

His Highness Won Nyaci Yosam Odur unvails the manument in memory of LRA victims


It is now confirmed that four of the many students of Aboke Girls School abducted by the Lords Resistant Army rebels in 1996 have died while only 25 have returned and one is still missing.


The news cam...

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UPDF Hands Over Camp ESKIMO to Congolese Forces

Posted by langoconference on March 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo, March 18, 2009
 

 

UPDF and DRC generals dance in Camp Eskimo to the tune "kazi huliyo tutumia muzei tumemaliza"


The Ugandan Chief of Defense Forces General Aronda Nyakairima and his Congolese counterpart General Didier Etumba accompanied by the two Commanders who led the joint operation Brig ...

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Kony Abandoned Me for 3 Months during War - Aboke Girl

Posted by langoconference on March 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM Comments comments (4)

By Ronald Odongo in Gulu March 13, 2009
 

 

Catharine Ajok and baby Happy Odonga


Catherine Ajok, 26, who was captured by the joint forces west of Duruma in DRC early this week has revealed shocking details of how her husband the subtle LRA rebels? chief dumped her when the UPDF launched the opera...

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UPDF Airlifts Former Captives to Sudan

Posted by langoconference on March 1, 2009 at 5:24 PM Comments comments (0)

By Geoffrey Omara in Gulu, February 28, 2009


The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) this weekend airlifted five former captives of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, from Dungu in DRC to Yambio in South Sudan. Three of them are women, two of whom had given birth to a child each. The third woman is believed to be about three months pregnant.


The abductees have been identified as Victoria Geriwa; an 18 year old mother of two, abducted in 2006 from Marid...

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LRA abducts 70

Posted by langoconference on February 24, 2009 at 5:25 PM Comments comments (0)


By Ronald Odongo In Gulu February 21, 2009


More than 70 Sudanese have been abducted by LRA along Sudan-Congo boarder, accordind to a spokes person of the government of Southern Sudan.


The governor of Western Equatorial state Her Excellency Madam Jema Kumba while receiving 2 boys and 3 girls of between 12-17 years rescued by the joint operations troops in the Garamba national forest in the DRC revealed that LRA rebels atrocities have affected people along the border...

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LRA: Odhiambo Arrested, Kony Surrounded, Matsanga Irrelevant

Posted by langoconference on February 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM Comments comments (0)

 By Robert Egwea


Okot Odhiambo


Okot Odhiambo, who is alleged to have headed the massacre of over 300 civilians in Barlony, Lango, Northern Uganda in 2004 is now in Ugandan custody following his arrest about 2 weeks ago as he tried to escape to Central African Republic, according to UPDF spokesperson Maj...

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3 LRA Rebel Fighters Surrender to UPDF, 9 Rescued

Posted by langoconference on February 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Gulu, February 14, 2009

The UPDF and the allied forces from DR Congo and South Sudan have received three LRA rebel fighters who surrendered and reported on Saturday morning.
 
Operation Lighting Thunder spokesperson Captain Deo Akiiki told us that they have also rescued about 9 people during several small contacts with Lords resistance army fighters within the last two days.
 
Akiiki says the fighters surrendered with one SMG (AK 47) ...

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Allied Forces to Continue Hunting for LRA

Posted by langoconference on February 17, 2009 at 5:25 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Gulu, February 14, 2009

Gen Aronda Nyakairima (2nd from left) arrives in Dungu for talks with DRC counterparts

 

The combined forces of Uganda, DRC and Southern S...

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Kony Sends Wives with Special Message to Museveni

Posted by langoconference on February 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM Comments comments (0)

By Ronald Odongo in Gulu February 12, 2009


The latest report from the jungle of Garamba in the Democratic Republic of Congo is that two highly trusted Kony’s wives who reported to allies South of Duruma at Biebie Alala in the areas of Sokuse in the DR Congo have a special message for President Yoweri Museveni who is also the commander in chief of the UPDF.


A military source told us that the elusive LRA rebel boss is currently under grave pressures mounted by the ...

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LRA Chief Negotiator Calls for Dialogue

Posted by langoconference on February 8, 2009 at 3:57 PM Comments comments (1)

By Robert Egwea in London, February 8, 2009

 

David Nyekorach Matsanga


In reaction to the determination of UPDF to capture LRA leader Joseph Kony alive, David Nyekorach Matsanga contacted us a short while ago and refuted the claim that Kony is in DRC.

“I have an official letter as the leader of the peace delegation f...

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