All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The Chief of Defense Forces General Aronda Nyakeirima says the UPDF is ready to hunt for Joseph Kony after he refused to sign the peace agreement in April.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Dissenting NRM MPs are in trouble, with Party President Yoweri Museveni promising to fight them like he has done against rebel leader Joseph Kony.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Rebel leader Joseph Kony's chief negotiator in the just concluded peace negotiations with government, Dr James Obita has been granted amnesty after he denounced rebellion.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony's former peace negotiator, James Obita, yesterday received his amnesty certificate, completing a process he says constituted no betrayal of the rebel leader.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
... recently in Uganda, where President Yoweri Museveni urged the ICC in 2003 to indict rebel leader Joseph Kony for atrocities but this year offered him an amnesty for peace. The ICC indictments have not been lifted however, and the rebels say that must happen to bring peace.Further south in Zimbabwe, experts say there is little chance of lasting peace and stability unless President...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in 2000, 22,921 former rebels had been pardoned.Of these, 12,481 were former LRA rebels led by Joseph Kony and 1,870 Allied Democratic Forces rebels.Onega said the commission was negotiating with the World Bank to get a grant that will enable them resettle the people who were pardoned.Each person who denounces rebellion is entitled to sh263,000, a mattress, a hoe, a blanket, a plate,...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The meeting focused on the increasingly bleak prospects for peace between the Ugandan government and the LRA, following rebel group leader Joseph Kony's refusal to sign a final peace agreement in April. This follows closely on the heels of a failed attempt by the rebel movement to have warrants of arrest issued against Kony and his top commanders by the International Criminal Court...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... weapons were recovered from Acholi, Lango and West Nile sub-regions that were hit hard by the Joseph Kony's LRA rebel activities. He said the ammunition was got from the LRA fields that they abandoned while some from arms traffickers most especially in West Nile who usually cross the Uganda-DR-Congo border."We have observed that the fields abandoned by the LRA, are fertile grounds...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
(repeats to widen distribution)KAMPALA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Uganda granted amnesty on Tuesday to a former senior figure in the fugitive Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels who fell out with the group's leader Joseph Kony.James Obita, a 58-year-old exile, was the spokesman of the guerrilla group during some of the stop-start peace talks between Kony and Uganda's government that collapsed...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... voice of civil society which was quite loud in debating whether the ICC indictment of rebel leader Joseph Kony and his henchmen was good or bad for peace.One would have expected that the crimes Bashir and Kony have been accused of, whose victims are often helpless villagers in northern Uganda and Darfur, would attract a strong response from civil society groups. What with the...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) -- rebels from northern Uganda who are led by self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony and notorious for using boys as child soldiers and girls as sex slaves.SPACE INVADERSIn late February and early March, along a 100-km (60-mile) stretch of 'National Highway Number 2', the grandiose name of the overgrown dirt track that runs east from the capital Bangui to...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
... with the Uganda Amnesty Commission.Obita, who was sacked as head of delegation by LRA leader Joseph Kony last month, confirmed that his amnesty application had been accepted."I have been told go to the Amnesty Commission and receive a certificate. I am so happy to be back home as a citizen," he told The New Vision on phone yesterday.His decision, he explained, was to demonstrate goodwill...
