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| International News | Saturday August 4 2012 5:13

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she hopes drones will soon be able to see through jungle cover so they can locate warlord Joseph Kony.

Clinton's made the remark in Uganda while watching a small US-made drone the Ugandan military uses in Somalia to fight al-Qaeda-linked militants.

The US last year sent 100 special forces advisers to Central Africa to help hunt Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a band of jungle-roaming militants known for kidnapping children, taking girls as sex slaves and disfiguring victims.

Ugandan forces are at the forefront in the hunt for Kony, whose campaign of terror originated in Uganda but who is now elsewhere in central Africa.

Photo: Joseph Kony (Getty Images)

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