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ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Oil-rich Nigeria is gripped by an escalating uprising by Islamist militants that has triggered massacres of Christians, including a Christmas Day suicide bombing blitz, which the federal government seems unable to contain.
LONDON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The Central African Republic is awash with local and foreign militias that pose a grave threat to the civilian population, Amnesty International said.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Five years after Ethiopia invaded Somalia, Kenya has sent troops into its lawless neighbor with a similar objective: setting up a buffer zone to block Somalia's jihadists.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- President Obama said Friday he is sending military advisers to central Africa to help regional troops fighting a sectarian rebel group.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A commander in the Lord Resistance Army charged with murder "is off the hook" because of Uganda's amnesty laws, his lawyer said.
WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- Washington needs to verify Khartoum isn't backing the Lord's Resistance Army before Sudan is removed from the state sponsor of terrorism list, lawmakers said.
BANGUI, Central African Republic, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Uganda plan a joint offensive against the Lord's Resistance Army, officials say.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Children were forced into sexual slavery or used as soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic last year, Human Rights Watch said.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Lords Resistance Army has killed more than 400 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo since Christmas, an international aid group said Tuesday.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Residents of northern Uganda say they're fearful a regional military offensive there may spur rebels to commit atrocities on civilians.
