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Les opérations menées par la Force régionale d’intervention (FRI) de l'Initiative de coopération régionale sous conduite de l'UA pour l'élimination de la LRA (ICR-LRA), qui regroupe la RCA, la RDC, le Soudan du Sud et l'Ouganda, ont considérablement affaibli la LRA, la forçant à délocaliser certaines de ses activités vers la partie Nord-Est de la RCA.
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125. The efforts to neutralize the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued during the period under review. The operations conducted by the Regional Task Force (RTF) of the AU-led Regional Cooperation Initiative for the Elimination of the LRA (RCI-LRA), which brought together the CAR, the DRC, South Sudan and Uganda, significantly weakened the LRA, forcing the group to relocate some of its activities to the north-eastern part of the CAR. In a significant development, Dominic Ongwen, one of the senior commanders of the LRA who was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), in July 2005, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the request of the Ugandan Government, surrendered to the Seleka group in north-eastern CAR at the end of December 2014. On 5 January 2015, the Seleka group transferred him to the US Special Forces (USSF), who are supporting the RTF. The USSF, in turn, and at the request of the AU, transferred him to the custody of the RTF in Obo, on 14 January 2015. Following consultations with Uganda and at its request, Dominic Ongwen was handed over to the CAR authorities, who transferred him to the ICC. As a result of the increased pressure by the RTF, the LRA is increasingly redeploying from the CAR to the North-Eastern part of the DRC, where an upsurge in attacks, looting and abductions has been noted.
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