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Africa Subsaharan

Doing the Jobs Americans Won't - Wagner Group Pursuing Joseph Kony

2024-05-05

[SOFX] Russian Mercenaries Track Notorious Warlord Joseph Kony

... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
in the Central African Republic

Russian mercenaries associated with the Wagner Group have intensified efforts to capture one of the world’s most elusive fugitives, Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). According to multiple sources, including a Rolling Stone report, a recent operation in the Central African Republic nearly succeeded in apprehending Kony, who has evaded international efforts to capture him for over two decades.

In early April, in a remote area of the Central African Republic, Wagner mercenaries engaged in a significant gunfight near a village named Yemen, where Kony was believed to be hiding. The operation followed the surrender of 14 defectors from Kony’s LRA at the end of March to Wagner-affiliated Chadian fighters posing as Central African Republic government forces. This action led to a severe skirmish in Yemen, reportedly resulting in casualties among both the local population and Wagner’s forces.

Kony, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has been a ghostly figure in the African bush, orchestrating a campaign of terror that includes abduction, mutilation, and forced recruitment of children into his militant group. Despite various international efforts, including a high-profile U.S. military operation named Observant Compass, Kony has remained at large, moving frequently across borders and evading capture.

Wagner’s pursuit represents a significant shift in the dynamics of international military operations in Africa. The Russian mercenary group, led until last year by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been increasingly active on the continent, providing direct military support to several African regimes in exchange for access to natural resources and strategic footholds.

The implications of Wagner potentially capturing Kony are profound, challenging the efficacy of Western-led military interventions in Africa. This comes at a time when U.S. and European influence on the continent is perceived to be waning, as evidenced by recent coups in Mali and Niger that have disrupted long standing military partnerships.

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Africa Subsaharan

Uganda: Witch Doctor Defends Ongwen At ICC Court

2018-10-06

[All Africa] A witchdoctor on Tuesday walked into the International Criminal Court (ICC) courtroom to defend former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a perennial thorn in Africa's side rebel commander Dominic Ongwen, who is facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was a first in history that the international crimes court is hosting a witness conversant with the underworld.

Camouflaged and with face and voice distorted, the ICC courtroom went mute as an unusual witness, a witchdoctor, walked the three judges of the court through the spiritual underworld.

Mr Ongwen, who sat in the middle of the public gallery and faced the prosecution team, uneasily smiled as he followed the proceedings.

He donned a black suit with a blue tie as he watered his throat from white disposable plastic cup.

"Back at home (in Acholiland) most people follow jok (spirits)," the protected witness told the court.

At this point, defence lawyer Krispus Ayena Odongo, who was questioning the witness, said: "It's quite revealing."

"I know it's also difficult for the court and other people from different parts of the world to believe that spirits actually exist," Mr Ayena said.

As the witchdoctor delved deeper into the magical workings of spirits, dozens of legal friends, including Ongwen's defence team, looked scared.

This prompted presiding judge Péter Kovács to guide away the witness from taking them farther the depths of the underworld.

"Leave out the general issue of the spirits, but you could mention what relates to Mr [Joseph] Kony," the judge ordered.

The witnesses, PW150, told court that Ongwen, the former commander of the alleged Sinia Brigade of the LRA, could have committed atrocities under the influence of spirits.

The witness said LRA leader Joseph Kony

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Africa Subsaharan

Uganda: Another Kony Rebel Surrenders

2017-04-01

[All Africa] A former senior signaller in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a perennial thorn in Africa's side led by elusive rebel leader Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
has defected from the rebel outfit to the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF).

Lt Michael Omona, 33, defected on January 20, from the jungles of Central African Republic (CAR) after spending 23 years in captivity.

He was airlifted to Gulu on Monday and welcomed by religious leaders led by Gulu Archbishop John Baptist Odama, security officials and cultural leaders amid ululation from relatives at Gulu Airfield.

Mr Omona joins two other former ex-LRA fighters; Sgt Peter Kidega, a former radio signaler and Julius Obira. They both surrendered to the UPDF in October last year and February last month respectively.

He was kidnapped by LRA rebels in 1994 at his ancestral home in Alero Sub-county in current day Nwoya District while still in Primary Five at Alero Primary School. According to Ugandan security officials, Mr Omona, a father of two, first surrendered to the Seleka
...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone...
rebels in Central African Republic before being handed over to the UPDF and American security agents in Obo. Speaking to Daily Monitor in an interview on Monday, Mr Omona said his plans of defection followed an order by Mr Kony, who summoned his group comprising 30 rebels, to meet him at an undisclosed venue in CAR.

"We had lost touch with other LRA commanders and Mr Kony himself for two months. We were being commanded by Maj Okot Owila but we later got reports that Kony wanted to meet us and I thought to myself I wasn't going to go back to him, so I escaped on my way from Lukoto river," Mr Omona said.

He added: "I wandered in the jungle for ten days before entering the Seleka rebels' held territory in Sam Ouandja. I surrendered to them and their commanders later took me to the UPDF who treated me well."

"I want to thank my parents, religious and cultural leaders for the prayers. I want to thank God that I escaped and reached home safely because it wouldn't have been possible without Him," Mr Omona said.

Archbishop Odama applauded the UPDF and the American government for their efforts in bringing home ex-LRA fighters and urged those still in captivity to take the opportunity and surrender.

Lt Hassan Kato, the 4th Division infantry spokesperson, said the continued pressure UPDF has put on LRA remnants in the jungles of CAR has made life unbearable for Kony and his men.

"Kony can no longer administer his men and they are left with no option but to defect to UPDF," Lt Kato said.

The LRA war that lasted for nearly two decades led to the displacement of more than 1.5 million people with tens of thousands losing their lives while women and kiddies were kidnapped and turned into child soldiers and sex slaves.

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Africa Subsaharan

Uganda: Tapped LRA Radio Calls Pin Ongwen On Killings, Crimes

2016-12-10

[All Africa] Secret communication intercepts by the Ugandan army and police have come in handy for prosecution at The Hague to build its case that former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a perennial thorn in Africa's side commander Dominic Ongwen co-planned and commanded attacks against civilians, church institutions and military targets in northern Uganda.

The trial of Ongwen, who surrendered in January 2015, began on Tuesday at the International Criminal Court (ICC) where he is charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In a lengthy evidence presented to the court over two days, the ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and senior trial lawyer Benjamin Gumpert played what they said were intercepted radio call communications between Ongwen and other LRA commanders, including the leader Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
In one such audio, Ongwen is recorded as reporting to Kony: "We are beginning to kill civilians seriously right now. I have deployed squads for killings and people will hear [about it] on the radio."

In another audio recording, the former commander of LRA's powerful Sinia Brigade is presented as reporting to his boss and former LRA deputy commander Vincent Otti after an attack on Odek Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camp: "I have just come from shooting people, over. Let the people wait to hear about the waya (LRA slang for civilians), we have shot all of them."

The prosecution side states that the evidence showed Ongwen was a "murderer and rapist."

The audios, prosecution said, were obtained from the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and Uganda Police Force that set different bases in northern Uganda to eavesdrop LRA communication at the height of the insurgency.

The LRA communicated using High Frequency Radio and had a "reliable" method of communicating by radio, prosecution said, adding that the intercepts were reliable, unaffected by the fallibility of the human memory.

"They provide a unique opportunity to step inside the mind of Ongwen," Mr Gumpert submitted to the court.

Ongwen, who was in court sandwiched between three guards, looked unfazed. One person in the public gallery walked out sobbing as prosecution presented graphic details of how babies were burnt in huts, women indiscriminately raped, civilians chopped with machetes or bludgeoned to death with clubs during LRA attacks on the four IDP camps.

Speaking about the May 19, 2004 attack on Lukodi IDP camp, senior trial lawyer Gumpert said the "damage done was so bad that the camp had to be closed...Dominic Ongwen conceived, planned and executed the attack."

The defence will begin making its submissions mid-January, next year.

The Prosecution said the radio message intercepts were corroborated with hand-written logs by the UPDF, ISO and police spies.

Senior Ugandan security officials will appear as prosecution witnesses, Mr Gumpert said.

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Africa Subsaharan

ICC Confirms 70 Charges against Ugandan LRA Rebel Leader

2016-03-24

[An Nahar] War crimes judges Wednesday confirmed 70 charges against notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen for crimes committed in Uganda, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child soldiers.

Judges at the

International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
"confirmed 70 charges brought by the prosecutor against Dominic Ongwen," the Hague-based court said, paving the way to a trial on the alleged crimes.

Known as the "White Ant" in his native Acholi language, Ongwen is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role from 2002 to 2005 in the rebel group's reign of terror in northern Uganda, led by its runaway chief Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
Ongwen will be the first LRA member to face trial at the ICC, set up in 2002 to try the world's worst crimes.

A former child-soldier-turned-warlord, Ongwen was Kony's one-time deputy and one of the most senior commanders of the LRA, which is accused of slaughtering more than 100,000 people and abducting 60,000 children in a bloody rebellion against Kampala that began in 1986.

Prosecutors in January told the ICC's judges that Ongwen was the "tip of the spear" of the group that has sown terror in several countries across central and eastern Africa.

Ongwen, who is about 40 years old, allegedly ordered the killings of civilians as well as the abduction and enslavement of children to be rebel soldiers as the LRA attacked helpless villages across the Ugandan countryside, prosecutors said.

Witnesses to the carnage said Ongwen ordered his hostages, at least on one occasion, to "kill, cook and eat civilians," prosecutors said.

The LRA first emerged in northern Uganda in 1986, where it claimed to fight in the name of the Acholi ethnic group against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

But over the years it has moved freely across porous regional borders, shifting from Uganda to sow terror in southern Sudan before heading into northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, and finally crossing into southeastern Central African Republic in March 2008.

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Tanzanian Albino Toddler Seized in Feared Witchcraft Attack

2015-02-20

[An Nahar] An albino toddler has been kidnapped in northern Tanzania, police said late Monday, raising fears he may be killed and his body parts used for witchcraft.

Unknown attackers broke into the house and slashed the child's mother with machetes before snatching the one-and-half-year-old boy in the northern Tanzanian district of Chato late on Saturday.

"Two bandidos armed with machetes stormed into their kitchen, they hit his mother with machetes and took away the baby," said regional police chief Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
o.

The child's father, who was nearby during the attack, is being questioned, he said.
None of this might have happened if the 'folks' were not stuck on an endless cycle of joblessness and poverty. I blame our former colonial bosses.
"We have asked the public for cooperation to arrest the suspects," said Konyo.

Albino body parts are sought after in Tanzania for witchcraft. At least 74 albinos have been murdered in the east African country since 2000, according to the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
.

In August, a U.N. rights expert blamed a rise in attacks against albinos on looming presidential elections, due in October 2015, leading political campaigners to turn to influential sorcerers for help.

Albino body parts sell for around $600 in Tanzania, with an entire corpse fetching $75,000, according to the U.N.
Also referred to as 'Muti' or medicine murder.

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Africa Subsaharan

Ugandan forces capture fugitive LRA officer

2014-04-23

[Iran Press TV] Ugandan soldiers have captured a runaway member of African myrmidon group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a perennial thorn in Africa's side and freed 10 hostages, the army says.

Ugandan army front man Paddy Ankunda said on Tuesday that LRA officer Charles Okello was taken into custody in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR).

Ankunda described Okello as a field commander of the "notorious" LRA, saying, "Most importantly we released 10 people, seven children and three women, who had been held hostage for six months."

The Ugandan army has been leading an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force tasked with capturing the LRA's members, some of whom are wanted by the

International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
(ICC) in The Hague.

The LRA is said to have split up into small groups and its runaway leader, Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
, is thought to be hiding in a place where the borders of the CAR, South Sudan, and Sudan meet.

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Africa Subsaharan

African troops kill senior LRA commander, Uganda says

2013-12-04

[Egypt Independent] US-backed African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
troops have killed a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan army front man said on Tuesday, part of efforts to track down the guerrilla group and send its leader to the Hague.

US Special Forces have supported a Regional Task Force (RTF) of African troops since 2011 to try to track down LRA leader Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
, wanted by the

International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in a guerrilla war in Uganda and neighbouring states.

The group, which launched its uprising two decades ago, has moved from Uganda to the border region of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR), where analysts say it could rebuild in the political chaos sweeping through the country.

"We were alerted last week by our US partners about a group of 30 LRA fighters who were about to cross River Vovodo in southeastern CAR," said Uganda's deputy army front man, Major Robert Ngabirano.

"We subsequently deployed and managed to kill 14 including Colonel Samuel Kangul who is Kony's chief planner and No. 4 in their hierarchy. Some others drowned in the river and we were also able to capture one alive," he said, adding the team had also captured weapons and two satellite phones.

A US Special Forces adviser in South Sudan, speaking to Rooters on the condition of anonymity, said a US helicopter ferried Ugandan troops with the RTF into CAR's remote Vovodo and Chinko river basin on 22 November. The mission lasted a week.

He did not give details about LRA members killed in the mission involving 20 Ugandan commandos with US personnel, although he put the number at five to 10 deaths.

"The river basin has been denied now as an area LRA previously had freedom of movement," he said. "The operation also resulted in a lot of belt and magazine fed military weapons being captured."

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Africa Subsaharan

C Africa 'negotiating' with Kony

2013-11-23

[Bangla Daily Star] The Central African president yesterday insisted he was negotiating with Joseph Kony
... The Lords Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo...
after Washington rubbished claims the wanted Ugandan militia boss was personally involved in any talks.

Michel Djotodia is in contact with Kony, one of the world's most elusive war criminals, over the fate of the children and women enslaved by his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), presidency front man Guy-Simplice Kodegue said.

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Africa Subsaharan

Ugandan insurgents may face traditional justice upon surrendering

2009-02-28

Alice Anywar lives in the Pagak resettlement camp in Gulu and at 39 is a multiple victim of the over-20-year-old Lords Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in Northern Uganda. The rebels first attacked her home in the village of Kilak in 1987, killing both her parents and abducting her 12-year-old brother. In 2002 they murdered her husband.

The rebels have retreated into the jungle in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) but Anywar, like many other residents, fears they could re-enter Uganda.

The elusive peace was dealt a near deathblow, many argue, in 2004 when Yoweri Museveni's government requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague to indict and prosecute the rebels. The body has since become a source of further tension between the warring parties. The LRA has accused the ICC of bias for not charging their adversaries in Uganda's army.

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Africa Horn

2 killed as some 100 Ugandan rebels attack Sudan border village

2008-09-21

(SomaliNet) Uganda's Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels early on Thursday attacked a border village in Sakure sub-county between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in a surprise attack on barracks of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). ''About 100 LRA rebels made a surprise attack Thursday morning on the SPLA military barracks in Sakure Payam,'' state information minister, Col. Joseph Ngere, told the press. ''One SPLA soldier was killed and a four-year-old child was killed too.''

The child, he said, was ''thrown into the fire of the burnt house of the area's chief, which is just three kilometers from the SPLA military barracks at the Sudan-DRC border. Neighbouring households were also burnt down, leaving the area dilapidated.'' The LRA are reported to have abducted and mutilated some inhabitants and four persons are reported wounded.

''The LRA rebels were quickly repulsed by the SPLA forces. On the roads where the LRA escaped, there were drops of blood. SPLA forces captured one rifle from the LRA rebels,'' Ngere added.

The attack was throwing into balance the planned signing of the peace deal this weekend. ''There is no reason for negotiation and wasting of resources for the LRA dead-locked peace deal,'' Ngere said. The SPLA have sent reinforcements to Sakure. This is the second major attack by the LRA since the Juba peace talks faltered.

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Africa Horn

Sudan: Ugandan Army Blamed for Attacks

2008-07-02

An attack in Southern Sudan initially blamed on the rebel Lords Resistance Army was done by the Ugandan military, according to investigators. "This was alleged to be the LRA," Dr Riek Machar, Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan told the southern Sudan Parliament Monday. "I sent the committee to go and investigate it. The rest of the evidence is there. Indeed, it didn't turn out to be the LRA, but they were UPDF."

According to documents presented in Parliament, the Ceasefire Monitoring Team conducted a verification of the alleged LRA activities in area on June 19. According to the report, an armed group of about 30 men raided a homestead with 5 houses at Nyongwa Village, close to the Sudan border with Uganda.

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