Pour lire la version française de ce rapport, cliquez ici. Monthly Brief: January 2017Overview
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was responsible for 14 attacks in January 2017 in which they abducted 59 civilians, the highest monthly abduction total since September 2016. However, the 59 abductions in January 2017 was a sharp reduction compared to January 2016, when LRA forces abducted 171 civilians. Nearly all of the LRA's January 2017 abductions took place in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a shift from 2016, when they were largely concentrated in eastern Central African Republic (CAR). In addition, a recent trend of attacks by armed groups on vehicles traveling the Rafai–Mboki road in CAR continued, with the ambush of a MINUSCA convoy on January 3 and the ambush of a truck being escorted by soldiers from the AU Regional Task Force on January 15.