A Mission to Capture or Kill Joseph Kony Ends, Without Capturing or Killing<br />ome point." General Harrington said the mission to get Mr. Kony could be looked at, in retrospect, as a mission "to remove a regional threat,"<br />and there, he said, the operation has been successful, degrading the Lord’s Resistance Army to where it is now. that Everyone will meet their maker at s<br />American officials say that even though the mission to find Mr. Kony is at an end, they will keep working with African forces to stabilize the region.<br />Destination: the remote town of Obo, in the southeastern part of Central African Republic, where they will take part in a ceremony organized<br />by Uganda to mark the end of the mission to capture or kill Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or L.R.A.<br />The United States spent almost $800 million on the effort since 2011, when President Barack Obama deployed Special Operations forces to the region to provide advisory support, intelligence<br />and logistical assistance to African Union soldiers fighting the Lord’s Resistance Army.<br />A Treasury statement on March 8, 2016, blamed Mr. Kony<br />and the Lord’s Resistance Army for at least 239 civilian abductions in the Central African Republic between July 2014 and July 2016.<br />Gen. Kenneth H. Moore, the deputy commanding general of United States Army Africa, along with<br />the American ambassador to the Central African Republic, Jeffrey Hawkins, to carry the flag.
