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Joseph Kony's Jungle Hideout

Mar 21, 2013 | 10:47 GMT

Summary

The Central African jungles have long provided concealment to numerous rebel groups, but few have embraced the concept of a hideout as literally as Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. The Lord's Resistance Army began as a rebel group in Uganda and is now a scattered force active in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo near South Sudan, as well as on the Congo's northern border with the Central African Republic. Several offensives by surrounding countries, with backing from the United Nations and the U.S. military, have failed to track down the leader of the rebel force, which survives on looting and pillaging unprotected villages deep in the Central African jungles.

Finding the Lord's Resistance Army rebels is complicated by persistent geographic constraints....

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