Joseph Rao Kony is an Acholi Ugandan militant and warlord who founded the Lord's Resistance Army, designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Peacekeepers, the European Union, and various ot
A force reconnaissance US Marine goes over threat detection methods with a group of Ugandan soldiers, February 2012. Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12 sent a small team of Marines into Uganda on 3 February to train Ugandan forces for the fight against al-Shabaab in Somalia and the hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord’s resistance army.
The conflict forced many civilians to live in internally displaced person (IDP) camps, such as this Labuje IDP camp near Kitgum, Uganda, in 2005.