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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Ugandan rebels threaten to quit talks |
| 2006-09-24 |
| Ugandan rebels accused the government on Saturday of violating a truce by "besieging" its fighters and threatened to pull out of peace talks widely seen as the best chance to end one of Africa's longest conflicts. Representatives of the notorious Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels said Ugandan army forces had surrounded an LRA assembly point in Owiny-Ki-Bul on the Sudan-Uganda border, where insurgents were meant to gather under a truce signed last month. "The LRA delegation cannot continue to negotiate while its troops risk imminent attack," Krispus Ayena Odongo, a senior member of the delegation, told reporters in southern Sudan's capital Juba where talks are being held. "As a precondition to resume peace negotiations, LRA demands an immediate withdrawal of (Ugandan army) troops that have besieged our troops," he added. Odongo said clarification from the chief mediator of talks on this "massive redeployment" of Ugandan soldiers into neighboring southern Sudan was "a matter of absolute urgency". |
| Posted by:Fred |