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Most notably, he failed to show up to sign the Final Peace Agreement with the Government of Uganda in April 2008 and November 2008.
Two years of verbal wrangling led to a peace agreement that was finalized in April 2008, but Kony refused to appear at a series of scheduled meetings to sign the document, demanding that the ICC suspend the warrants for him and other LRA leaders before he would sign the agreement.
In December 2008, when it became clear that Kony wasn’t going to sign the agreement, Operation Lightning Thunder was launched.
In retribution for the attempted attack, the LRA, led by ICC-indictee Dominic Ongwen, attacked villages in the DR Congo on December 24, 2008, killing 865 civilians and abducting 160 more over the course of two weeks.
3.48pm: I've just been speaking with Liz Wainwright, an English photojournalist who completed research in Uganda for an Msc in 2009.
Although the international efforts to capture Kony and eradicate the LRA were not successful, the years of trying to evade capture appeared to take its toll on the group, weakening it by the 2010s.
The organisation's accounts show it's a cash rich operation, which more than tripled its income in 2011, with more than two thirds of its money coming from "general donations".
11.43am: Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian's film critic, has just filed his verdict on the Kony 2012, which will be up on the site soon.
8.01pm GMT / 3.01pm ET: Here's a voice of support for the Kony 2012 initiative from someone close to the matter indeed.
Jacob Acaye, the Ugandan former child abductee at the heart of the film Kony 2012, has defended the video and its makers.
In 2012, Kony acquired Australian SAP consulting company Sky Technologies.
In March 2014, former executive vice president of software at HP, Thomas E. Hogan, was named CEO.
In May 2014, Kony announced a $50 million round of funding.
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In June 2018, Kony launched Kony DBX, a digital banking platform and application suite.
In October 2018, Kony acquired Pivotus, Inc, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings.
In August 2019, Kony was acquired by Temenos Group, which has since subsumed Kony.
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