(SomaliNet) Western diplomatic sources have said Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony, is walking to the Sudan-Congo border to sign a final peace deal this week with the Government. The LRA leader will sign two days ahead of the official ceremony in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, because he fears arrest, South Sudanese officials, who have been mediating the protracted peace talks to end the two-decade war, have said. LRA chief , Joseph Kony, is walking to the Sudan-Congo border to sign a final peace deal this week with the Government, Western diplomatic sources said.
South Sudanese officials, who have been mediating the protracted peace talks to end the two-decade war, have said the LRA leader will sign two days ahead of the official ceremony in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, because he fears arrest.
Colonel Paul Lokech, the commander of the UPDF forces across the border from where the attack was said to have taken place, denied the killings but said several Sudanese had been arrested. "They crossed 52 miles into Uganda with hundreds of cattle and armed with G3 rifles. We rounded them up and disarmed them," Lokech said. "Our gunships did not kill anyone. We have released all 41 suspects along with their cattle, but we withheld their arms. We also cautioned all of them not to cross the border illegally."