On Wednesday, Angelo Izama, an award-winning Ugandan journalist who specializes in security issues in central Africa, said the US is running a „multi-country intervention with a small number of troops“ with a mission that isn‘t entirely humanitarian in nature.

Izama argues that there‘s a key natural resource component to the Uganda story that the Kony 2012 campaign has failed to address: in 2009, significant oil deposits were discovered near Uganda‘s border with DR Congo.