The government of Southern Sudan has finally deployed
a battalion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army to the assembly
area that 800 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters abandoned
last month because they had no protection from Uganda's soldiers
ther...
There will be no quick peace in Uganda. On 17 September, nearly
1,000 Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters had assembled at the
forest clearing of Ri Kwangba, on the Sudan-Congo-Kinshasa
border. Yet LRA chief Joseph Kony and deputy Vincent
Otti plus ...
The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic
approach to the talks between the Ugandan government
and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital
Juba, despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President
Ri...
The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process
When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of
his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation.
That he succeeded only partially was clear at February's elections,
in which he took his western homeland and most of t...
A new cabinet finds presidential stalwarts adapting to multiparty
democracy
South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice
The LRA insurgency drags painfully on, threatening Congo and Southern
Sudan as well
Yoweri Museveni won the presidency and his party won parliament
but the country is divided
The National Resistance Movement bigwigs whom voters rejected
include 17 government ministers - one quarter of President Yoweri
Museveni's cabinet. The most senior was First Deputy Prime
Minister Moses Ali, Minister for Disaster Preparedness
and Refug...
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