Information reaching our news desk confirms that the United States President Barack Obama has stepped up efforts to capture Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.
Kony is believed to be the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, which is accused by the United Nations and Human Right groups of killing and mutilating innocent civilians and kidnapping thousands of children, forcing them to be soldiers and sex slaves.
It was revealed that Obama dispatched military aircraft to the central African nation to help track the brutal warlord, with several CV-22 Osprey aircraft arriving in the troubled country by the middle of the week.
According to the Washington Post, the White House began notified Congressional leaders about the plan on Sunday night.
Officials emphasized that the Ospreys 'will be used for troop transport and that the rules of engagement for U.S. forces remain the same as for about 100 Special Operations troops that Obama first sent to help find Kony in October 2011,' the paper reports.
It was gathered that U.S. military personnel will be allowed to 'provide information, advice and assistance' to an African Union military task force responsible for tracking Kony and the LRA.
U.S. forces are equally authorized to track Kony and his forces across Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Congo.
The U.S. soldiers are however, not authorized to engage the LRA unless it is in self-defense. The number of U.S. forces who will be a part of the operation to track Kony are unlikely to exceed 300.
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