On the run for 20 years, Ugandan warlord Kony still 'active' within the Lord's Resistance Army

Joseph Kony, the fugitive rebel leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, has been wanted by the ICC for more than 20 years. A former altar boy and self-proclaimed messiah, prophet and messenger of God, Kony founded the rebel group in 1987 with the aim of overthrowing Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and establishing a theocratic regime based on the ten commandments in the Bible. The LRA's bloody insurgency is one of Africa's longest and most brutal conflicts. It has claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced more than two million people, mainly in northern Uganda, according to the UN. The group carried out numerous massacres and kidnappings of children, who were recruited by the thousands to fight or to satisfy Kony's commanders' sexual appetites. Resurgence in the Central African Republic Driven out of the country in 2006 by the national army, the group gradually faded from the public eye, although it remains active in isolated border areas of Central Africa. But in recent months, the LRA has once again made headlines. Central African authorities are concerned about a resurgence of attacks in the east and southeast of the country. At least 25 children have been abducted there dur...