His comments come as the UN says a senior northern Ugandan rebel commander has surrendered to authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

LRA leaders, whose brutal 20-year war in northern Uganda killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 2 million more, signed a truce with Uganda last year but have refused to quit their jungle hideouts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

She was abducted by the rebels in 2003 when she was only 11 years old. She was a brave and fearless soldier who killed many. After five years in captivity, she decided to escape. She told Gladys Kalibbala her life in the bush and how it has affected her.

Uganda said Wednesday that it will enact a law that would protect the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerillas from trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC) which indicted the leaders of the brutal rebel group for war crimes two years ago.

She prayed for a safe journey as the bus set off for, as a girl born and raised in northern Uganda, Akello was aware of the dangers of travelling along this route. The threat comes from the attacks by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony’s men do not always attack, but when they do, the result is always nasty. They loot, they kidnap, they kill.

Alice Auma Lakwena, Uganda’s self proclaimed prophetess and leader of the defunct Holy Spirit Movement passed away last week at Ifo refuge camp in Kenya, after twenty years in exile.

Some 10,000 children are still missing in Uganda with as many as 1500 held captive by rebels engaged in stalled peace talks to end a two-decade war in the country’s shattered north, an aid agency said.

The woman who began the long running insurgency in northern Uganda, Alice Lakwena, has died in exile in Kenya after a long illness.

Uganda’s faltering peace process received a boost yesterday when one of Africa’s most fearsome rebel commanders sat down with United Nations officials in a clearing deep in the southern Sudanese jungle.

An independent monitoring team set off on Tuesday to investigate Ugandan rebel claims they were attacked by Ugandan troops in southern Sudan, breaking a fragile truce aimed at ending one of Africa’s longest conflicts. Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas accused the military on Monday of ambushing their fighters at Birinyang, southeast of southern Sudan’s capital Juba, risking a restart of a 20-year war that killed tens of thousands and uprooted 1.7 million more.

A bitter drink known as mato oput by the Acholi people of northern Ugandan may have the ingredients for peace between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Mato oput is the ritual climax of an Acholi justice process for bringing reconciliation in the wake of a homicide within the community.

Martin Acaye was a soldier in Uganda’s fearsome rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), for seven years. Abducted during an ambush and forced to join the country’s 20-year civil war, he entered villages and stole food at gunpoint every day. And every day he prayed that he would one day be reunited with his wife and children. But now that he is home, Mr Acaye, 33, is ready to forgive the men who took him away from his family. Like so many people in the Acholi region of northern Uganda who have suffered at the hands of the LRA, Mr Acaye wants the group’s leader, Joseph Kony, and his estimated 6,000 fighters, to go home.

Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has threatened to derail the on-going peace talks with the government. It said that peace talks would not hold if the International Criminal Court (ICC) refuse to revoke the indictment against the rebel leadership.

JUBA, Sudan, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels agreed on Saturday to leave their hideouts and assemble at two south Sudanese camps in a major breakthrough in efforts to end one of Africa's longest wars, mediators said.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord Resistance Army declared a ceasefire on Friday and called on the government to lay down its arms ahead of peace talks due to resume in south Sudan next week.

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