A Mission to Capture or Kill Joseph Kony Ends, Without Capturing or Killing

A Mission to Capture or Kill Joseph Kony Ends, Without Capturing or Killing
ome point." General Harrington said the mission to get Mr. Kony could be looked at, in retrospect, as a mission "to remove a regional threat,"
and there, he said, the operation has been successful, degrading the Lord’s Resistance Army to where it is now. that Everyone will meet their maker at s
American officials say that even though the mission to find Mr. Kony is at an end, they will keep working with African forces to stabilize the region.
Destination: the remote town of Obo, in the southeastern part of Central African Republic, where they will take part in a ceremony organized
by Uganda to mark the end of the mission to capture or kill Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or L.R.A.
The United States spent almost $800 million on the effort since 2011, when President Barack Obama deployed Special Operations forces to the region to provide advisory support, intelligence
and logistical assistance to African Union soldiers fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army.
A Treasury statement on March 8, 2016, blamed Mr. Kony
and the Lord’s Resistance Army for at least 239 civilian abductions in the Central African Republic between July 2014 and July 2016.
Gen. Kenneth H. Moore, the deputy commanding general of United States Army Africa, along with
the American ambassador to the Central African Republic, Jeffrey Hawkins, to carry the flag.