Uganda: Army Recovers Elephant Tusks Hidden By Lord's Resistance Rebels

9 February 2013

Kampala — The army on Thursday recovered a cache of elephant tusks that it says was hidden by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group in the jungles of the Central African Republic.

In a statement the army said that a squad of soldiers that is part of a mission hunting rebel leader Joseph Kony found the small stash of ivory following a tip-off from an LRA defector.

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