The US Government has posted a $5m reward for the capture of the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony.

The UN chief says African warlord Joseph Kony’s militia group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, killed 39 civilians this year in the Congo and the Central African Republic.

Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.

Some €4m of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has disclosed.

Dáithí O Sé, pictured here with Texas Rose Kelly Gaetano, will introduce the Rose Of Tralee on RTÉ One on Monday and Tuesday.

A British pilot jailed in Africa after he discovered the victims of an apparent massacre has described his joy at being transferred to house arrest.

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The United Nations has endorsed an African Union force to capture warlord Joseph Kony and neutralise his Lord’s Resistance Army.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he has “no doubt” that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord’s Resistance Army leader.

The African Union will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in a new military mission officials say is necessary to remove the Lord’s Resistance Army from Central Africa’s vast jungle.

THE management of information, its manipulation to create a specific impression or damage an individual, the security and integrity of online data, the role of social media in influencing public and political agendas, their role in elections, myriad issues surrounding the rights of those who generate information for commercial purposes and an individual’s right to online privacy are the subject of growing, if belated, public attention.

A viral campaign to bring accused Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony to justice, has sparked a growing storm.

UGANDAN LRA rebels have kidnapped at least 700 people in attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic since February last year, a rights group said yesterday.

The UN Security Council condemned the upsurge in attacks by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in Congo, Central African Republic and Sudan and urged these countries to share information with the United Nations to try to protect civilians, especially women and children.

ATTACKERS hacked to death scores of people who sought refuge at a Catholic church in remote eastern Congo the day after Christmas, officials and witnesses said yesterday.

ALICE Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, has been laid to rest at a funeral attended by several hundred followers.

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, met a Ugandan rebel leader wanted for war crimes today.

Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has told journalists that he is committed to negotiating peace after 19 years of war, and denied he has committed war crimes.

EIGHT Guatemalan special forces soldiers deployed as UN peacekeepers in Eastern Congo were killed and five more were injured yesterday during an operation against Ugandan rebels, the United Nations said.

The International Criminal Court has issued its first arrest warrants, for five members of Uganda’s notoriously cruel Lord’s Resistance Army.

UGANDA’S army overran the headquarters of a rebel group in a cross-border raid and killed at least 120 fighters, including possibly the group’s leader, a military spokesman said yesterday.

THE Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has earned a terrifying reputation for its brutality against the people of northern Uganda, has abducted an estimated 20,000 children over the years.

SCORES of rebels attacked a displaced persons' camp in northern Uganda, shooting people as they fled and burning others alive in their huts.