Taping the LRA

South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice

At the celebrations to mark the founding of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army on 16 May, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit told supporters that his fledgling government had persuaded the LRA to start talking. He announced that his Vice-President, Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, had met LRA chief Joseph Kony - probably Africa's most reclusive rebel.

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Congo-Kinshasa, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, Joseph Kony, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, United States, Betty Oyella Bigombe, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, John Garang de Mabior, Daniel Awet Akot, Vincent Otti, David Lokanga Moses, Guatemalan, Amama Mbabazi, Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo

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