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Central African Republic rebels seek bounty for seized Lord's Resistance Army commander

 

Seleka rebels in Central African Republic want the United States to pay them a bounty of up to $5 million, saying they were the ones who captured fugitive Ugandan Lords Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen.

U.S. forces helping African nations track the LRA across Central Africa said earlier this week that they had detained a man claiming to be Ongwen, a rebel chief wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

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