There is a new development in the search for the infamous warlord Joseph Kony.

Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), who has receiver worlwide infamy in a viral video released in 2012, may be getting closer and closer to incarceration.

The CAR (Central African Republic) has reportedly been in contact with Joseph Kony, and has been urging him as well as the members of the LRA to surrender.

His whereabouts are, however, still unknown. 

Joseph Kony had waged a vicious guerilla war against the Ugandan government for almost twenty years, notorious for kidnapping thousands of children across the region to use as sex slaves and child soldiers. He has also been known to have their limbs chopped off as a disciplinary measure. 

Joseph Kony and the LRA have fled into the jungles along the borders of the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Republic of Congo back in 2005. They have since been hounded by at least 5,000 members of the African Union Regional Task Force, and about 100 US Special Forces. 

"The current military pressure has kept the LRA, including its leader Joseph Kony, on the run," Francisco Madeira, the African Union's special envoy to the LRA expressed to the U.N. Security Council."This heightened pressure forced the LRA to try his time-tested tricks of buying time by duping the CAR authorities into "negotiations" to purportedly allow Kony and his LRA to "surrender" and re-settle in Nzako, CAR,"

Michael Djotodia, interim president of the Central African Republic, has told the press that he had been in contact with Joseph Kony.  "His people have been in contact with him (Kony), and they wanted to encourage him to surrender," Madeira told members of the press. "Many reports indicate that he is suffering from some serious illness, uncharacterized illness."

"Military operations have degraded the LRA and limited it to pursuing survival tactics. However, recent attacks in South Sudan attributed to the LRA are a reminder that the group remains a serious and unpredictable threat to communities throughout the sub-region," he added.