The situation's a lot more complex than you might think bytches :U
On the one hand, the aforementioned terrorist did make the Lord's Resistance Army which used children soldiers and committed depraved acts of war, and he is still at large
On the other hand, all of this happened in 2006. Why are we just hearing about it now? Because a charity called Invisible Children made a very high production video detailing the situation as if it were an active threat today
Joseph Kony isn't even in Uganda anymore; he has been in hiding Bin Laden style for over 5 years, and his "army" is no longer a national crisis. So in this way the entire video is a despicable scam. I've seen terms like "cynical opportunism" and "the white man's burden" thrown around to describe the effect this video has had on industrialized nations and the wave of misdirected funds donated to Invisible Children
On the third hand, a portion of the proceeds actually do go towards funding peace in Uganda, but not in the way you might think. An estimated 31% of the proceeds goes towards funding Uganda's military and the Sudan's People's Liberation Army, among other things. Neither of these armies have a clean record; they use some of the same depraved acts of war to get their point across as Kony and his army used to.
The rest of the proceeds apparently go to "film making expenses", which includes paying the filmmakers exorbitantly high wages and other non-charitable actions. Here's a source quote for ya: