Uganda calls off search for warlord Joseph Kony in CAR

Uganda has suspended the search for warlord Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic (CAR), blaming "hostility" from its new government.

Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
He and his fighters are believed to be hiding in jungle areas in the CAR and neighbouring countries.
Ugandan troops in the CAR - where rebel forces took power 10 days ago - have returned to their bases in the country.
The Ugandan forces are in the CAR under an African Union mandate, assisted by soldiers from other African nations, as well as US special forces.
The African Union has suspended
the CAR's membership after the Seleka rebel group seized power and overran the capital Bangui last month.
They ousted President Francois Bozize, whose government was a supporter of the mission to find Kony.
The Seleka rebels have been "openly hostile to us and following that, the president [of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni], has ordered us only to be in defensive positions," Dick Olum, head of Ugandan troops in the force, told Reuters.
Officials said that the Ugandan troops would stay in their base until the African Union clarified their position.
Joseph Kony and the estimated 200-500 fighters of his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have waged war in Uganda and the region for more than two decades.
He claims the LRA is fighting to install a government in Uganda based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
But his rebels now terrorise large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.