Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John L. Peters, center, with Stan Reynolds, right, (now World Neighbors Director for Africa) in Zaire, June, 1973, listening to village leaders at a World Neighbors assisted agricultural project."

This report discusses the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and United States policy, strategic and humanitarian response. LRA is an armed group that originated in northern Uganda 24 years ago but has operated since 2006 in the remote border areas between the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan. Led by Joseph Kony, its numbers are tiny, but its actions, which include massacres, mass abductions, sexual assault, and looting, have caused significant human suffering and instability.