Nzara served as the operational headquarters of the 4th Division of the
Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), the Ugandan contingent in Operation
Rudia II. This was part of the regional campaign military against the
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). After the LRA defeat at Camp Swahili, the UPDF ceded overall control of the operation to the
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and moved the bulk of its forces to Nzara in March 2009. About 2000 UPDF troops remained in the DRC, north of Faradge, and Nzara-based attack helicopters supported them in engagements against increasingly concentrated LRA forces. According to a 2012 published report, Nzara has housed one of the four Combined Operations Fusion Centers where intelligence and operations have been coordinated among the anti-LRA coalition. ==References==