DTN News: U.S. To Provide A C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft To Airlift Rwandan Soldiers To Central African Republic

DTN News: U.S. To Provide A C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft To Airlift Rwandan Soldiers To Central African Republic

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 3, 2014: Rwandan soldiers wait in line to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Kigali, Rwanda, Jan. 19, 2014. 

U.S. forces were dispatched to provide airlift assistance to multinational troops in support of an African Union effort to quell violence in the Central African Republic. 
(DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane, U.S. Air Force/Released)

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DTN News: Uganda Troops Catch Top Rebel In Central African Republic

DTN News: Uganda Troops Catch Top Rebel In Central African Republic

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(NSI News Source Info) NAIROBI, Kenya - September 11, 2009: The Ugandan military said on Thursday it had captured a feared senior rebel from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who is accused of leading the massacre of 250 villagers more than 14 years ago. Okot Atiak was apparently detained last month during a campaign against the guerrillas by Ugandan forces in southeast Central African Republic (CAR). Uganda's army spokesman said he was providing intelligence to troops in the field. Atiak is not one of three top LRA commanders wanted for war crimes by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, but he has held several senior positions in one of Africa's most brutal rebel movements. (Image: Uganda troops catch top rebel in Central African Rep.) He is blamed for leading the fighters who slaughtered 250 civilians at Atiak village in northern Uganda's Gulu District in April 1995. The attack was seen as an LRA reprisal against fellow ethnic Acholis who failed to support their rebellion.

The multinational assault on Kony's fighters has only served to sow more chaos, with fleeing rebels attacking more villages and kidnapping hundreds of children, mostly to serve as porters. Kulayigye said most civilians rescued by the military from the LRA in recent weeks were from Congo, CAR and southern Sudan. "(Kony's guerrillas) have been trying to look for survival by spreading their tentacles in the region," he said. "Our forces came into contact with the rebels in CAR and we captured him in action," Ugandan army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayigye told Reuters by telephone from Kampala. The militaries of Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been fighting the LRA in remote south Sudan, northeastern DRC and southern CAR since two years of peace talks collapsed last year. The negotiations stalled amid mutual mistrust after Joseph Kony, the rebels' elusive leader, refused to sign a final peace agreement that the Ugandan government said would have given him and his top deputies immunity from ICC prosecution. More than two decades of rebellion by the LRA have killed tens of thousands of civilians and a large swathe of central Africa has been destabilised by marauding LRA guerrillas who are notorious for slicing off body parts and abducting children.

DTN News: President Of Central African Republic Francois Bozize Yangouvonda On An Official Visit To China

DTN News: President Of Central African Republic Francois Bozize Yangouvonda On An Official Visit To China *Source: DTN News / Xinhua (NSI News Source Info) BEIJING, China - September 10, 2009: President Francois Bozize Yangouvonda of the Central African Republic will pay a state visi to China on Sept. 9-15 at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao. China's President Hu Jintao and Central African Republic's President Francois Bozize walk past the honour guard during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing September 10, 2009. Born in Mouila, Garbon, in 1946, Bozize studied at several military colleges in France. Between 1973 and 1982, he served in succession as head of general office of the Defense Ministry of the Central African Republic, the country's air force commander, deputy chief of the general staff, defense minister, and information and culture minister. In 1996, he was appointed chief of general staff of the country's armed forces. He became president of the Central African Republic in March 2003, and won the presidential election in May 2005. Bozize paid a working visit to China in August 2004.