The surge of lootings may coincide with the end of the dry season, as LRA groups seek to stock up on goods and supplies to last through the rainy season during which mobility is increasingly difficult. While there have not been any confirmed COVID cases in the Ueles, the insecurity and displacement of civilians hinders access to health services in an already unserved region and presents challenges in mobilizing a humanitarian response.
Organizations in South Sudan have responded to the influx of Congolese refugees by establishing temporary protection sites to house the displaced for two weeks before transferring them to refugee camps. However, the limited presence of humanitarian organizations in the Ueles leaves displaced persons particularly vulnerable as they remain reliant on local host communities.
In some communities, local leaders have restricted movement early in the morning and in the evening and advised to travel in groups. In about , they were ejected from bases in northern Uganda and what is now South Sudan, and retreated to an area of jungle straddling the borders of South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic, where the task force continued to track them. The United States said in March it was switching to a broader African security mission and removing U.
Security Council this week. What Are Upstanders? Take Action Join Events. EIN: The reasons for military failure are at root political. Museveni scaled down the operation to pursue other ventures he felt would win him greater political capital at home and abroad. Since the LRA has not been able to operate within Uganda for years and no longer endangers its security, few opposition politicians or community leaders there demand its defeat. As Congolese elections, still scheduled for late , draw near, the army has demanded the Ugandans pull out and, while waiting for the official decision, forbidden them to leave camp.
There is no prospect of a negotiated end to the LRA problem, given the collapse of the multi-year Juba process and the lack of any apparent interest on the part of either Museveni or, especially, Kony to go that route again after three more years of fighting. Instead, the AU, under pressure from some member states and the U. A year and counting, however, planning has foundered over its inability to reconcile differences with and between key member states and donors.
Uganda and the three directly affected countries hoped the AU initiative would open the door to more Western funding for their armies but are little interested in political guidance or civilian programs. However, the EU prefers the AU to act politically and is reluctant to finance the armies. Uganda resists ceding any of its military and policy freedom to the African regional body.
Frustrated with the ineffectiveness of Operation Lightning Thunder, the U. The move is part of a broader ramping up of its political and military engagement against the LRA. It has also offered to train more Congolese soldiers and has given equipment to the CAR army in order to win the operation political space. However, the Obama administration, a year from its own elections, is cautious about testing U. The deployment, it has made clear, will be short term.
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