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United States Africa Command

Public Affairs Office

19 March 2012

Good morning. Please see today's news review for March 19, 2012. This newformat is best viewed in HTML.

Of interest in today's report:

- The Warlord versus the Hipsters- Uganda PM launches online response to Kony video- We are blocking Kony from re-entering DR Congo-UPDF

- Slavery's last stronghold

U.S. Africa Command Public AffairsPlease send questions or comments to:[email protected] (+49-711-729-2687)

Headline Date Outlet

The Warlord versus theHipsters

03/18/2012 TIME Magazine

Uganda PM launchesonline response to Konyvideo

03/18/2012Agence France

Presse (AFP)

We are blocking Konyfrom re-entering DRCongo-UPDF

03/18/2012 Daily Monitor

Slavery's last stronghold 03/18/2012 CNN

AP Exclusive: HowSomalia famine aid wentastray

03/18/2012Associated Press(AP)

Ethiopia: Eritrea EasesFears of Renewed

Conflict, Accuse U.S. forEthiopia Raid

03/18/2012 AllAfrica.com

Sierra Leone army readyto deploy in Somali afterJune

03/18/2012 Africa Review

Cry beloved Somalia:Five years of UPDFoperations

03/18/2012 Daily Monitor
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News Headline: The Warlord versus the Hipsters |

News Date: 03/18/2012Outlet Full Name: TIME MagazineNews Text: The town of Obo lies on a bend of a remote river in a nameless forest in acountry whose name--Central African Republic--is generic.

A few miles from Africa's pole of inaccessibility, its farthest point from any ocean, Obo's15,000 residents build houses of cane and palm thatch, have neither power nor runningwater and come together at the town church, where the priest still summons his flockwith a wooden drum, or at its rudimentary hospital, which boasts a single doctor.Outside town, in any direction, are hundreds of miles of forest, home to nomads,Pygmies and hippos. Yet Obo is on somebody's map. On a bluff down a dead-endtrack on the western edge of town, past a police post to which a baby chimpanzee istied by a string, stands a new construction: a 7-ft.-high (2 m) reed fence enclosingseveral grass huts. When a TIME photographer and I approach, two stern white facespop up on the other side. "You're not allowed in here," says one, in American-accentedEnglish. "Speak to our public-affairs office in Entebbe [Uganda]." And the face

disappears.

What are 30 U.S. special-operations troops doing in one of the most far-flung places onearth? Special ops' code of secrecy notwithstanding, their mission is a matter of publicrecord. In May 2010, Congress passed the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, mandating that the President"eliminate the threat to civilians and regional stability" posed by the LRA. ThatNovember, President Obama said his strategy was to back local efforts in Uganda,southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic(CAR) "to maintain pressure on the LRA, both militarily and diplomatically ...specifically, the urgent challenges of apprehending or removing Joseph Kony from thebattlefield." That led, in December 2011, to the deployment of 30 special-operationstroops to the CAR and 70 more to Uganda, Congo and South Sudan to help advise

local forces on how to hunt down the LRA and arrest or kill its leader, Kony.

To which a reasonable response might be "Who?" Or it might have been until March 5,when a San Diego--based advocacy group called Invisible Children released a 29-minute film on the Internet called Kony 2012. Invisible Children called on activists tomake Kony the most famous war criminal on earth, thus raising the political will tospeed his arrest or death. It was one of many films about the LRA the group has madesince 2003, but for some reason Kony 2012 became a phenomenon. Invisible Childrenwanted 500,000 views. According to the group, the film got a million in 24 hours. After
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48 hours, it had a million every 30 minutes. Six days after its release, 85 million peoplehad watched the film, by then translated into 50 languages.

Invisible Children found itself the sudden focus of lavish praise and scathing criticism.Effusive backing came from a host of Senators, Representatives and celebrities as wellas International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who told the

BBC, "They've mobilized the world." But academics and bloggers, particularly Africans,criticized the group for overstating the threat--with 150 to 200 mostly barefoot fighters,the LRA has never been weaker--while Ugandan video blogger Rosebell Kagumirebecame a Web hit herself when she attacked Invisible Children's staff for castingthemselves as "heroes rescuing African children." Invisible Children co-founder JasonRussell, who has starred in a number of the group's previous, less popular films, seemsgenuinely surprised by the furor. The film is "changing the world," he told TIME as Kony2012 approached 100 million views. At the same time, he added with equalbewilderment, "people are calling me the devil."

Who are Invisible Children? Why are 100 American commandos helping local forcespursue a tiny guerrilla army in Central Africa that poses no threat to the U.S.? Did thephenomenal interest generated by Invisible Children help shape the President'sdecision to send in the troops?

Stumbling upon a Cause

It is March 2003, a few days before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and three San Diegoslackers, childhood friends now wearing baseball caps and goatees, are explaining tothe camera why they are going to Africa to make a film about a 47-year civil war thathas cost 2 million lives. "We are naive kids that have not traveled a lot, and we aregoing to Sudan," says Bobby Bailey, 21. Laren Poole, 19, rambles on about how"media is life, it defines your life. So it's an obvious choice for three kids who want tofind the truth." In a voice-over, a 24-year-old Russell adds, somewhat superfluously,"None of us knew what we were doing."

Russell, Poole and Bailey make it to Sudan but find no fighting. After filming

themselves vomiting, setting anthills on fire and chopping a snake in half, they follow atrail of Sudanese refugees south to northern Uganda. When they approach the town ofGulu, a truck in front of them is shot at and two people are killed. Forced to stay inGulu, they film as thousands of children show up at nightfall and sleep on streetcorners, in a bus park, in hospital corridors. "Needless to say," narrates Russell, "wefound our story."

Bailey, Poole and Russell had found the fallout of the LRA's war: tens of thousands ofchildren who wouldn't sleep at home for fear of being abducted by the rebels. The crisiswas not new. The LRA was founded in northern Uganda in 1986 to oust UgandanPresident Yoweri Museveni, whose troops tore through the north when Museveni, asoutherner, seized power that year. The LRA never seriously challenged Museveni,and the group might have remained forever obscure but for one thing: Kony is one of

the cruelest and most twisted men ever to hold a gun. His MO runs to rape, murder,mutilation and cannibalism, and he sustains his group by pillaging villages, stealingfood and abducting children to take as soldiers and wives.

Former LRA abductees describe Kony as a messianic sociopath--amiable one minute,murderous the next. Emmanuel Dada, 33, who was abducted from Obo in March 2008and forced to fight and kill for the LRA before escaping a year later, tells TIME thatKony, a preacher, had a unique take on the Bible: "Kony told us, 'The Bible says if youare going to do good, do good all your life, and if you are going to do evil, do evil allyour life. I chose evil, and that's what I will always do.'"


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Over the years, the LRA, fleeing intermittent attacks, spread from Uganda to Congo,then South Sudan, then the CAR. Kony raised the cost of confronting him with a seriesof massacres. "I killed too many to count," says Dada. "They forced me to kill an oldman. He was just doing nothing, just sitting there, and I beat him to death with a stick."By the time Bailey, Poole and Russell stumbled across the LRA, the cumulative

damage was staggering. Despite the LRA's never having mustered more than a fewthousand fighters, the U.N. estimated that the group had killed tens of thousands,abducted tens of thousands more and displaced 1.5 million.

In 2005, Kony became the first individual to be indicted by the newly establishedInternational Criminal Court in the Hague. Editing their first film, titled Invisible Children:Rough Cut, back in San Diego in 2003, Bailey, Poole and Russell told themselves theycould help bring Kony to justice by showing people what the LRA was doing. "In ourworld," says Russell, "abducting children, cutting people's faces off, making children eattheir friends--that just doesn't happen. We thought, Once people know about this, it'sgoing to end in a year." For greater impact, the three decided on direct distribution. In2004 and '05, they traveled from high schools to college campuses, screening InvisibleChildren for hundreds of thousands of students. To translate their swelling support intogovernment action, they linked up with four other college kids who had recentlyreturned from a student exchange to Uganda and had formed a Washington lobbygroup called the Uganda Conflict Action Network, later Resolve. John Prendergast,founder of the Enough Project, known for its effective use of celebrities like GeorgeClooney and Don Cheadle, became the anti-LRA groups' big gun.

So far, so do-good. But Invisible Children was different. Its founders were young,privileged and goofy, and its DNA was more tech start-up than humanitarian. The threebroke the standard advocacy-group rules of conduct too. They horrified establishedcampaigners with films as much about them as the war. They disregarded principles ofneutrality and noninterference. They simplified and sensationalized. In particular, whilemilitary action was anathema to most humanitarians, the anti-LRA campaigners cameto see it as essential. Addressing the need for food and shelter but studiously ignoringa crisis' political cause in the interest of securing access--the traditional aid-worker

stance--is merely a way of "managing pain," not fixing it, says Ben Keesey, 29, InvisibleChildren's CEO since 2006. In Invisible Children's eyes, direct military action was areasonable, even necessary option.

Established humanitarians find that argument outrageous. LRA specialist Ledio Cakaj,with the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey--who quit Prendergast's Enough group overhis support for military intervention--says, "The idea that you have organizations thatworry about things like children and rights advocating for a military solution, it's a realparadox. They lose the moral high ground." Russell retorts, "That's really old school.What's more humanitarian than stopping a war? I understand the conviction thatviolence begets violence. But either you just go on pulling people out of the river or yougo upstream, find out who is pushing them in and stop them."

Whatever worries some harbored over Invisible Children's methods, there was nodenying its influence. By 2008, the campaign had made the LRA and Kony the No. 1foreign issue for American students, on a par with the antiapartheid campaign for anearlier generation. Invisible Children, Resolve and Prendergast then channeled thatvociferous energy toward Washington, arguing in meetings with Senate and Houseleaders and White House staffers that U.S. intervention was imperative. In 2009 thecampaigners helped draft a bill demanding executive action. By early 2010, a time ofcorrosive partisanship in Washington, they had secured cross-party, dual-chamberbacking for their proposed law. When Senator Tom Coburn, known as Dr. No for hishabit of blocking legislation on budgetary grounds, tried to kill it, activists slept outside


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his Oklahoma office for 11 nights in midwinter until he relented. After the passage ofthe law, a dozen members of the House of Representatives publicly praised InvisibleChildren for its effective campaigning in support of the bill. One of them, RepresentativeSusan Davis, a Democrat from California, told the House, "These young members ofthe Invisible Children organization ... have helped make the children of Uganda visibleto us. And now, with this legislation, we have a chance to truly join in this cause." Once

the bill was law, at least four anti-LRA campaigners found U.S. government jobs--in theWhite House and the Departments of State and Defense. Resolve's executive director,Michael Poffenberger, says, "They worked on the bil l, then went over to theAdministration to help it." The level of engagement, says Prendergast, wasunprecedented. "It's a social movement of mostly young people attempting to addressa moral issue halfway around the world which had little or no ramifications for them," hesays. "It's amazing."

Setting a Precedent?

The organization's marshaling of forces was impressive, but Invisible Children was, toan extent, pushing at an open door. In 2008, President Bush had sent 20 special-operations advisers to assist an assault by the Ugandan and Congolese armies onKony's base in Congo's Garamba National Park. Prendergast says the anti-LRAcampaigners never asked Obama to send in troops. "He went further than anything wewere advocating for," he says. A senior Administration official says the President'saction reflected "a common wisdom" shared with the campaigners "that this needs tobe addressed." Addressing an Invisible Children rally in Washington at the time,Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said, "The fact is,nothing good happens and nothing bad ends unless like-minded people come togetherand demand change."

For Obama, as for Bush before him, the combination of a low-risk military mission andbipartisan support, created in part by Invisible Children, appears to have made thedecision to send the special-operations advisers relatively easy. "When I decide tostand up for foreign aid or prevent atrocities in places like Uganda," said Obama at theNational Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 3, "it's not just about strengthening alliances or

promoting democratic values or projecting American leadership around the world,although it does all those things, and it will make us safer and more secure. It's alsoabout the biblical call to care for the least of these--for the poor; for those at themargins of our society."

Opinions are divided on whether the LRA operation sets a precedent. National SecurityCouncil spokesman Tommy Vietor insists that it does not: "We look at these things on acase-by-case basis based on the facts on the ground and U.S. interests. It would bewrong to interpret this as meaning there will be additional missions in the future."Prendergast says the operation gives new military might to the Responsibility toProtect, a U.N. initiative, but adds, "I don't think the Administration roams around theworld looking for places to do the same." Invisible Children, on the other hand, isdetermined to see that the LRA mission establishes a new benchmark for world justice.

Says Russell: "We want to take this campaign from a one-off to a world-changingmoment. Was the U.N. created just for picking up dead bodies? We need a newproactive machine to protect those being slaughtered. Then we can have a worldwhere genocide and child soldiering do not exist."

Beyond proclaiming such lofty ambitions, Invisible Children is short on specifics. Thathelps feed the criticism the group is now attracting. Kony 2012 "simplifies the story ofmillions of people in northern Uganda," says blogger Kagumire. "This war is not justabout Joseph Kony [or about] one bad guy against good guys and against 'we, themighty West.'" In response, Invisible Children said that while it sought to "explain the


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conflict in an easily understandable format ... in a 30-minute film, however, manynuances ... are admittedly lost or overlooked." It also rejected outright the accusationsof a "savior complex." "Over 95% of [Invisible Children's] leadership and staff on theground are Ugandans on the forefront of program design and implementation," it said.

But ultimately the legacy of the LRA operation hangs on how the special ops perform.

There are several worries on that score too. Manhunts take time and money--it took 10years and hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. to find and kill Osama bin Laden--and the LRA operation has little of either. The senior Administration official cautionsthat the deployment is not open-ended--maybe a year, three at the outside. And it is anopen question whether 100 U.S. troops, whatever their skills, are enough to succeedwhere the Ugandan army has failed for a quarter-century. The Americans are meant tolimit themselves to coordinating the various armies, gathering and sharing intelligenceand providing logistical support. The operation is run on a relatively shoestring budgetof $35 million, which means the LRA's pursuers have no attack helicopters, and U.S.aerial surveillance of a thickly wooded area the size of France is limited to one airplaneflown by a contractor whose thermal detectors do not work at night. In addition, the2008 assault ordered by Bush backfired. Kony carried out a series of reprisalmassacres and split the LRA into groups as small as five, scattering them as far asDarfur. The next few months are critical. "We don't want them to come back empty-handed," says Prendergast.

In Obo, the heart of LRA territory, expectations are high that Kony will soon face aHollywood kind of justice. Claude Longbango, 38, fled to Obo from Passi in northernCongo in June 2009 when the LRA killed his uncle, brother and cousin and abductedhis 18-year-old sister, her 2-month-old baby and a 6-year-old cousin. "They killedOsama," he says. "They must kill Kony like they killed Saddam Hussein." GuinikparaGermaine, 19, who was abducted from Obo in March 2008 and forced to become oneof Kony's wives for three years, says the LRA leader himself also expects the worst."He recognizes he is weak. He used to laugh and enjoy himself, but now, when hethinks about what he wants and his ambitions, he's like a man on drugs. He stays in hisroom and watches DVDs."

At night, the villagers of Obo express their new hope in dances around giantxylophones and congas. "The Americans are here/ Our saviors are here/ Our hope ishere/ Let's dance," goes one composition. During the day, at a school in a Congoleserefugee camp, a drummer calls the children to their own celebration dance wearingsomething familiar: a 2008 Obama campaign shirt. CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN,reads the slogan. The LRA may yet return. But for now, however improbably, changehas come to Obo, and the people are allowing themselves to believe.

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News Headline: Uganda PM launches online response to Kony video |

News Date: 03/18/2012

Outlet Full Name: Agence France Presse (AFP)News Text: Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi launched Saturday an onlineresponse to a viral campaign to arrest rebel commander Joseph Kony to counter the"false impression" that the country is in conflict.

In a video broadcast on YouTube, and in a flurry of messages posted on Twitter,Mbabazi invited 20 celebrities including Hollywood or music stars such as AngelinaJolie, George Clooney, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
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"As PM (Prime Minister) of Uganda, I appreciate your interest and invite you to visit. Wehave peace,stability and great people" he wrote in a tweet to celebrities, using the#KonyisntinUganda.

The video, "Kony 2012", by US advocacy group Invisible Children, has been viewed byover 80 million people worldwide since it was released online last week, with a string of

celebrities tweeting links to the emotional film.

"It is particularly welcome to see so many young people uniting across barriers ofnation, race, religion and culture to take a stand for justice, I salute you and I thankyou," Mbabazi said in the video.

"I extend the invitation not just to the 20 celebrities, but to you all -- come and seeUganda for yourself -- you will find a very different place to that portrayed by InvisibleChildren," he added.

Jason Russell, the 33-year-old co-head of the online campaign, has been hospitalisedafter being found semi-naked and masturbating in the street in the southern Californiancity of San Diego, police and his boss said on Friday.

Mbabazi, speaking to the camera in the simple broadcast filmed at his office desk, saidhe wanted to correct the "well intentioned" video, pointing out that "Joseph Kony is notin Uganda," and that the country is "not in conflict."

Kony's ruthless rebels were infamous for mutilating civilians and abducting children touse as soldiers and sex-slaves during their two-decade war in northern Uganda.

But they have been forced out of Uganda and since 2006 have been operating inneighbouring countries.

Kony, a semi-literate former altar boy, took charge in 1988 of a rebellion amongnorthern Uganda's ethnic Acholi minority, to fight th

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