Joseph Kony case: Ugandans welcome ICC's war crimes charges against LRA leader

The warlord remains at large but victims hope the ICC charges will renew efforts to capture him.

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An arrest warrant was issued for him in 2005, but he remains at large - believed to be hiding in the Central African Republic (CAR).

On Thursday, the ICC said he was being charged with 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, using child soldiers, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy.

A woman abducted by the LRA as a child and forced to become one of Kony's wives said she hoped the move would renew efforts to capture him.

"I cannot be happy like other women who went to school. I need justice for women who went through abduction like me," Evelyn Amon, 42, told the BBC.