Hunt for Joseph Kony, No Longer Seen as a Threat, May Shrink<br />By ZACK BADDORF and ERIC SCHMITTMARCH 22, 2017<br />BANGUI, Central African Republic — The Pentagon is poised to significantly scale back a decade-long mission to capture or kill Joseph Kony, one of Africa’s most notorious warlords, in a sign<br />that the United States and its African allies no longer see him as a regional threat.<br />A withdrawal of Ugandan troops would make the hunt for Mr. Kony even tougher, requiring<br />"much more direct cooperation with the Sudanese government," Mr. Ronan said.<br />According to the African Union Commission, Uganda has provided the bulk of the African Union<br />forces — about 2,000 of 3,085 — with most deployed in southeastern Central African Republic.<br />Sudan’s military has not participated in combating the guerrilla group and, in 2013, nonprofit organizations reported<br />that Sudan’s military had been harboring and supporting Mr. Kony and his forces.<br />"I hear that even the Ugandans are looking to stop searching for him, since they no longer view him as a threat, so why do we?" Mr. Kony<br />and his militant force emerged in Uganda in 1987 to fight against President Yoweri Museveni.<br />His troops operate in small groups spread throughout 115,000 square miles of lawless territory in the<br />border region of Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
