U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have carried out 180 attacks in 2012 alone.
Ban said 138 of those attacks were in the DRC and 42 in neighboring Central African Republic.
“They resulted in the deaths of 39 civilians,” Ban said. “A total of 193 persons have been abducted, 84 from the Central African Republic and 109 from the Democratic Republic of Congo. One third of the abductees were children.”
In June, the U.N. Security Council called for global help to equip an African Union force hunting Kony, which lack basic resources such as boots, food, transport and training.
“I am encouraged by the progress made in tackling the threat and impact of (the) LRA,” said Ban. “I urge the international community to maintain its attention to the LRA issue and to provide the financial support needed by the African Union and the United Nations to continue their work.”
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