Uganda is investigating allegations that a former ICC official funded LRA rebels

  Uganda is investigating allegations that a former senior official at the International Criminal Court (ICC) was involved in financing the Christian rebel group Lord's Resistance Army. This was pointed out by Uganda's attorney general Kiryowa Kiwanuka. Brigid Inder, the special adviser on gender issues to the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has denied the allegations in a statement posted on the X social page, where she said: "The allegations are shocking and untrue. ." According to a press release issued by a lawyer representing child soldiers of the LRA, "many victims have claimed that between 2006 and 2017, Mrs. Brigid Inder sponsored Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda". Kony, who is still wanted, launched a bloody insurgency more than three decades ago demanding the implementation of the Bible's Ten Commandments in northern Uganda.

To achieve his goal, he launched a campaign of terror that spread to several countries. Uganda's attorney general Kiryowa Kiwanuka told AFP that, "We have received... information about the alleged involvement of the said ICC official in financing LRA activities including money to buy weapons and our relevant bodies are investigating the allegations," "These are serious allegations of criminal and if it is found to be correct, the official will be taken legal action to ensure justice for the victims," said Kiwanuka without elaborating. Joseph Kony, the head of the Christian rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army LRA in Uganda Inder, who was the former executive director of the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice (WIGJ) and also a participant in the peace talks between the LRA and the Ugandan government, he said in a statement that he "denies" the allegations. More than 100,000 people were killed and 60,000 children kidnapped during Kony's insurgency, which spread to Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant for Kony in 2005 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.