Top UN Envoy Calls for Action on CAR, Kony, Piracy

[UN]A sustained international focus was needed to eradicate the multitude of threats that had blighted Central Africa for years — from the security crisis in the Central African Republic, to piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, to the unrelenting terrorist threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) — the senior United Nations official in the region told the Security Council today.