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  • ** FILE ** Michel Djotodia (center), the rebel leader who declared himself president of Central African Republic in late March after his soldiers seized the capital, arrives for a meeting with members of the government's armed forces in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Thursday, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo)

    Red Cross: 17 dead in violence in Central African Republic

    At least 17 people are dead following clashes between rebels and residents of the capital of Central African Republic on Sunday, Red Cross officials reported.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: $5 million for Kony, but no help in Benghazi

    When President Obama ordered 100 special operations forces to Kenya to advise and assist African troops in hunting down that evil rogue warlord Joseph Kony in 2011, I wondered if it was constitutionally appropriate. We have bad guys here in the United States. Was America just being a "nice guy"? Well, the mission must not have been successful, because now the United States is offering a $5 million bounty for that despicable person ("U.S. pauses Kony search in Central African Republic," Web, April 3). That amount is no small potatoes in this age of furloughs and sequestration.

  • **FILE** Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, meets July 31, 2006, with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. (Associated Press)

    U.S. pauses Kony search in Central African Republic

    U.S. special forces and African troops have suspended their hunt for war-crimes suspect Joseph Kony even as the Obama administration announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

  • Joseph Kony heads the Lord's Resistance Army, a group which originated in northern Uganda and is notorious for massacring civilians and using child soldiers. (Associated Press)

    U.S., Uganda forces put hunt for Kony on hold

    U.S. special forces and African troops have suspended their hunt for war-crimes suspect Joseph Kony even as the Obama administration announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

  • Briefly: 10 terrorists jailed for plotting attacks

    An Ethiopian court has sentenced 10 men to prison terms for between three and 20 years for plotting terrorist attacks with Islamist extremist rebels from neighboring Somalia.

  • Two children sitting on a church pew look back as a New Year's Day morning mass is conducted at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Jan. 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

    New child soldier fears in C. African Republic

    The U.N. children's agency says it's concerned about a growing number of children being recruited by armed groups in Central African Republic as President Francois Bozize's government faces a rebellion in the north.

  • A churchgoer raises her hands as she prays for peace in the New Year's Day morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic on Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (Associated Press)

    C. African Republic leader faces rebel threat

    After troops under Francois Bozize seized the capital of Central African Republic in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament. Now a decade later it is Bozize who himself could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month.

  • French troops sent to Bangui amid chaos

    As rebels advance in the Central African Republic, France has deployed an additional 180 troops to protect its interests.

  • In this frame grab taken from APTN footage from Dec. 27, 2012, Central African Republic President Francois Bozize addresses crowds in Bangui. The president urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital of Bangui. (Associated Press/APTN)

    State Department pulls ambassador from Central African Republic amid uprising

    The United States has suspended embassy operations in the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, because of concerns about the security of its personnel amid a rebel uprising, the State Department announced Friday.

  • President Obama returns a Marine honor guard's salute as he steps off the Marine One helicopter and walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington on Dec. 27, 2012, as he returned early from his Hawaii vacation for meetings on the fiscal cliff. (Associated Press)

    Embassy Row: Name droppers

    The diplomatic guessing game that comes with every president's second term is sweeping swank salons from Washington to Hollywood, as big-time Obama supporters gossip about who is expected to get the coveted titles of Mister Ambassador or Madam Ambassador.

  • World Briefs: Airstrikes kill scores during envoy’s visit

    A government airstrike on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed more than 60 people Sunday, activists said, casting a pall over a visit by the international envoy tasked with negotiating an end to the country's civil war.

  • FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Roughly one year after 100 U.S. special forces troops arrived in four Central Africa nations to advise African soldiers in their pursuit, Kony is still on the run and his exact whereabouts unknown. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File-Pool)

    Fugitive African warlord Kony stays a step ahead of pursuers

    The foot soldiers searching the deep jungles on the hunt for African warlord Joseph Kony were convinced they had cornered his deputy as they exchanged gunfire with a band of Lord's Resistance Army rebels.

  • **FILE** Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building in Obo, Central African Republic, used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). (Associated Press)

    Group: U.S. troops should actively hunt for Kony

    The hunt for the African warlord Joseph Kony is hopeless without more troops, an advocacy group said Friday, urging American forces to "play a more operational role" in the vast Central Africa jungle.

  • U.S. Special Forces have paired with local troops and Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic to help find fugitive Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army has been raping, pillaging and plundering villages across the region. (Associated Press)

    Hunt for notorious Ugandan warlord Kony loses momentum

    Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army has survived on a steady regimen of rape, murder, pillage and abduction across East and Central Africa, remains a fugitive, as African Union countries struggle to coordinate their forces and amass the political will to bring justice to one of Africa's most infamous warlords.

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