A touching Youth Day moment goes viral as a little boy's heartfelt salute to passing soldiers in uniform leaves Mzansi ...

The number of charges against Kony has increased from 36 to 39. These charges relate to war crimes and crimes against humanity ...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have given the final greenlight for the tribunal’s first in absentia hearing. The court will allow the next step in proceedings against ...

In October 2024, Thomas Kwoyelo - another former child soldier who later became a rebel commander under Kony - was sentenced by a court in Uganda to 40 years in prison for his role in the LRA's ...

Wagner’s hunt for Joseph Kony shows the Kremlin’s reach is expanding across Africa, as Washington’s strategy on the continent unravels. ... the LRA filled its ranks with child soldiers.

Ongwen was just nine years old when he was abducted on his way to school in Uganda by rebel leader Joseph Kony’s The Lord’s Resistance Army, who had killed his parents. He was heavily indoctrinated by ...

[ Kony’s children: The former child soldiers of Uganda Opens in new window ] The SDF provided ground troops for the US-led coalition which drove Islamic State from its base in the city of Raqqa ...

It forcibly recruited boys as soldiers and girls as sex slaves. Read more: In one of 2016's best books, a former Lord's Resistance Army child soldier reveals the reason behind the mayhem ...

The International Criminal Court will decide Thursday on an appeal by a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army against his ...

Former child soldiers provide new information about Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, who has been on the run since 2005.

Former child soldiers are providing new information about the leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army. The evasive Kony has been on the run since 2005 when the ICC issued an arrest warrant ...

The fate of every former child soldier is tragic. That must be considered at sentencing – and it was in Ongwen's case (his total sentence was 25 years’ imprisonment).