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Lord's Resistance Army kidnaps dozens in Central African Republic

Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed a villager and abducted dozens of others during two weekend raids in a remote diamond-producing area of Central African Republic, local residents and officials said on Tuesday.

The incidents represent the largest kidnapping by the Ugandan rebel group - headed by notorious warlord Joseph Kony - in recent months in the former French colony, which is also reeling from years of inter-religious bloodshed.

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