Uganda accuse Sudan of abhorring rebels

  1. Posted on Monday 15 March 2010 - 11:10
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    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Uganda has alleged that the rebel leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony who is wanted for war crimes may be in war-torn Darfur of west Sudan.
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    Uganda president Yoweri Museveni said: "Our military said that the small group in which Kony was had disappeared into Darfur. That is what they told me."

    Since 2008, LRA leader Kony has been on the run after regional States launched a chase to nab him after he rejected to sign a peace deal with Uganda. It is also alleged that his fighters have been moving in the forests of south Sudan, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic (CAR).

    Sudan is suspected to be supporting the LRA.

    “If the Sudanese want to accommodate him in Darfur, that makes no difference to us because they supported him much more in the past but whatever they gave him, we captured," Museveni stated.

    U.N-backed Congolese soldiers dismantled LRA training camps and disarmed some rebel fighters but the LRA - accused of abducting children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves - continued its attacks on civilians in north-eastern DRC, Central African Republic and border regions in autonomous south Sudan.

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