Tusk Wars: Inside the LRA and the Bloody Business of Ivory
Publisher: Enough Project
Author(s): Ledio Cakaj
Date: 2015
Topics: Renewable Resources
Countries: Central African Republic, Congo (DRC), South Sudan
New field research from the Enough Project shows that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is weakened to an unprecedented point, counting only 120 armed fighters in its ranks, scattered across three countries in central Africa. Despite its weakened state, the LRA continues to pose a threat to local populations in Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and in South Sudan, with 150 recorded attacks and 500 abductions of civilians for the first eight months of 2015 and 200,000 people displaced.