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Will Kony be caught?

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Will Kony be caught?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Politics » Africa
Settled on 12/31/2012 22:35 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:After 2012, or never2, or never'.

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Before the end of Q2 2012
During Q3 2012
During Q4 2012
After 2012, or never

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The African Union said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.

The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda.

"We need to stop Kony with hardware — with military hardware in this case," said Francisco Madeira, the African Union's special envoy on the LRA. "We are on a mission to stop him."

Friday's announcement comes the same month an Internet movie campaign by the U.S.-based advocacy group Invisible Children sought to make Kony "famous" so that policymakers would make it a priority to remove him. The video has been viewed more than 100 million times.

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   Super Userkruijs

A senior commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army has been captured by the Ugandan army, a spokesman has said.

The commander, whom Ugandan officials say is a top rebel military strategist, was captured in the Central African Republic, one of several nations where the Ugandan-led LRA operates.

The most notorious wanted LRA leader is war crimes suspect Joseph Kony.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18051522

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