UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council and the United States said Wednesday that the Lord’s Resistance Army’s decades-long reign of terror can be stopped if the international community helps the African Union capture fugitive warlord Joseph Kony and his henchmen.

In a briefing to the council, the head of the U.N. Office for Central Africa, Abou Moussa, applauded the African Union’s recent decision to dispatch a Uganda-led brigade of some 5,000 troops to hunt down Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.