Ugandan Government Repatriates Wives and Children of Joseph_Kony from the Central African Republic [PRESS RELEASE] Two young women, wives of Lord Joseph Kony, leader of the Resistance Army, were received yesterday at the UPDF airbase in Entebbe after being flown from Bangui, Central African Republic. Ugandan Ikol Grace, 33, and her two children, Ayuma Maria, 8, Oryema Bosco, 2, and Aniyessi, and South Sudanese Teregina, also 33, who is holding one of Kony's orphaned children, aged 2, were received and escorted from the CAR to Uganda by the Chief of Defence Intelligence and Security (CDIS), Major General Richard OTTO. Ikol Grace was abducted at the age of 10 in 2003 in Amuria District, while Aniyessi Teregina was abducted in 2006 at the age of 13 from Yambio, Equatorial West State, South Sudan. She will be facilitated to return home to South Sudan in due course. In total, eight Kony wives and 13 children escaped captivity in January of this year after their camp was attacked by an armed group in South Darfur, near the border of the Central African Republic, Sudan, and South Sudan. The other women, Congolese and from the Central African Republic, along with their children, have been returned to their respective families in their home countries. In 2023 and 2024, more than 150 LRA members returned, including some of Kony's wives and children who have since been returned to Uganda after escaping LRA captivity.
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