The announcement follows a week of government denials after Uganda’s military publicly acknowledged its deployment in Juba to “protect” President Salva Kiir amid rising insecurity.

The LRA began in the 1980s and at the peak of its powers gained notoriety for cruelty against civilians in Uganda, Congo, Central African Republic and what is now South Sudan. In 2012 the U.S.-based ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

In Central Africa the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has disrupted lives in Uganda, Sudan and elsewhere for many years. Armed conflict has enveloped western Sudan's Darfur region since 2003, while ...