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Last Updated: October 21, 2026

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Last Updated: October 21, 2026

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Joseph Kony General

Aliases

Kony

Joseph Rao Kony

Josef Kony

Le Messie sanglant

Nationality

Uganda

Position

Commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army

Date of birth

1959; 1960; 1961; 1963; 1964-09-18; 1965; 1961-08; 1961-07; 1961-01-01; 1963-04

Place of birth

Palaro Village, Palaro Parish, Omoro County, Gulu District, Uganda; Odek, Omoro, Gulu, Uganda; Atyak, Uganda

Address

Vakaga, Central African Republic; Haute-Kotto, Central African Republic; Basse-Kotto, Central African Republic; Haut-Mbomou, Central African Republic; Mbomou, Central African Republic; Haut-Uolo, Congo DR; Bas-Uolo, Congo DR; reported address: Kafia-Kingi (a territory on the border of Sudan and South Sudan whose final status has yet to be determined). As of Jan 2015, 500 Lord’s Resistance Army elements were reportedly expelled from the Sudan, Kafia Kingi

Linked entities

Lord's Resistance Army

Other sanctions regimes

UN

Sender

CH

Additional info

art. 2, para. 1 let. a (Financial sanctions) et art. 4, para. 1 (Travel ban)

Other Information

Kony is the founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) (CFe.002, SSID 34021). Under his leadership, the LRA has engaged in the abduction, killing, and mutilation of thousands of civilians across Central Africa. The LRA has been responsible for kidnapping, displacing, committing sexual violence against, and killing hundreds of individuals across CAR, and has looted and destroyed civilian property.; Father’s name is Luizi Obol. Mother’s name is Nora Obol.; Designation: Commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army

Date of listing

2016-03-07

Program information

Program information

Authority

CH

Program

Ordinance of 14 March 2014 on measures against the Central African Republic (SR 946.231.123.6)

Regime

UN, Switzerland country specific

Target State

Central African Republic

Measures

Asset freeze, Travel ban

Official Information

Switzerland imposes these sanctions under the Ordinance of 14 March 2014 on measures against the Central African Republic (SR 946.231.123.6). The measures implement sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council.

Program URL

  • https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2014/150/de

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