100 U.S. troops to fight Uganda’s LRA: a turning point or just a timely electoral move?

31.10.2011

After 20 years of devastation, death and abductions, U.S. troops will assist the same four African nations that have been countering the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for years. Can they really succeed in ending this nightmare?

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