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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The United States (US) Department of State has announced a cash reward for any \u201cindividuals who provide information that leads to the arrest, transfer or conviction\u201d of Ugandan fugitive Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can help bring him to justice and get paid up to $5 million (about Shs17 billion),\u201d the US said in a February 12 social media post through its War Crimes Rewards Program.<\/p>\n

Kony, a self-proclaimed \u2018messiah\u2019 sent by God -to counter the 1986 President Museveni establishment- in the late 1980s founded a United Nations (UN) designated terror group, LRA but has successfully eluded justice for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoseph Kony has been wanted for more than 15 years,\u201d the US observed as it assured on \u201c100 percent confidentiality\u201d about the source of leads to the warlord\u2019s capture.<\/p>\n

For 20 years, the LRA rebel group under Kony\u2019s command carried out several brutal-insurgent attacks in Northern Uganda that claimed over 100, 000 lives and displaced tens of thousands of people into different parts of the East African bloc. The International Criminal Court (ICC) records indicate that Kony\u2019s militants also exploited thousands of forcefully recruited child soldiers.<\/p>\n

Previous efforts to pursue the man believed to be in his early 60s have not yielded fruit with the former Catholic alter-boy, Kony, now rumored to be in a remote Sudanese location.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reward is impressive although but I have little hope that he will be captured. I am only expectant that someday justice will be delivered,\u201d says 26-year old Ronald Odong who reportedly lost several relatives during the LRA war in the present-day Gulu City.<\/p>\n

The very last mission to have Kony arrested or killed was declared ended by both Washington and Kampala- with no major gains even after the US spent at least $800 million in joint operations with the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) in 2017, according to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

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With several of his aides dead, some captured, jailed and many others granted amnesty, Kony\u2019s arrest would have him face up to 12 counts of crimes against humanity and at least 21 counts of war crimes following his 2005 ICC indictment.<\/p>\n

As of February 2022, the LRA security threat to regional stability has significantly waned from around 2005 after his rebel outfit was forced out of Uganda following multiple offensives by the UPDF.<\/p>\n

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