Keeping up with Africom

As AFRICOM--the Pentagon's African Command Center--rarely breaks into the news, its worth posting any update on it that is found.  So far, AFRICOM's most prominent actions have been against Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Congo.  In late 2008, AFRICOM helped the Ugandan government with the failed operation "Lightning Thunder," and it appears that recently the U.S. Congress has been pushing for more military help.

"In a little-noticed piece of bipartisan legislation introduced this spring — the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act — a group of U.S. lawmakers is urging the Obama administration to form a strategy for taking out one of the most dangerous rebel leaders roaming the jungles of Africa: Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army."