SFRC hearing on U.S. efforts to counter Joseph Kony and the LRA

The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs held a hearing on April 24 to consider U.S. efforts in support of the capture of Joseph Kony and the healing of communities in central Africa ravaged by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The issue was made famous in March 2012 when three NGOs released a web video about the Ugandan warlord that has since been viewed 104 million times. One of the Ugandan boys featured in the video who was kidnapped by the Lord’s Resistance Army testified at the hearing, as well as another former Lord’s Resistance Army abductee who is now the country director for Invisible Children.