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This morning, reports started coming in of attacks by Joseph Kony’s LRA rebels in South Sudan. The reports are preliminary and have yet to be officially confirmed. We are following up for more information. The following was obtained through Invisible Children and on-the-ground partners:

Nov 5 – LRA forces attacked people in Nabaria, South Sudan (A on the map). One man was killed, an estimated six men and three women abducted, and food was looted. A local militia group known as the Arrow Boys pursued the assailants. The six abducted men were released shortly thereafter, but it is unknown what became of the three abducted women.

Nov 7 – LRA forces attacked Ezo, South Sudan (B on the map), and abducted at least three people. The assailants also set fire to multiple houses and looted various unspecified goods from the town. Of the three people they abducted, two were released, and one was killed in the forest.

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Invisible Children works to protect communities from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in South Sudan by supporting a local FM radio station that encourages LRA defections, facilitating Safe Reporting Sites as places for LRA members to safely escape, and investing in Community Defection Committees trained to accept LRA escapees. To learn more, visit our programs page.

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We are taking immediate action and need to raise $30,000 within 3 days in order to fully fund the printing and distribution of “come home” fliers in targeted areas of South Sudan.  Encouraging LRA combatants to surrender is the most effective way to restore peace in these communities.

 

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