New Vision (Kampala) 9 Oct Catholic NGO hits back over LRA talk By Henry Mukasa CARITAS Uganda has hit back at the disaster preparedness minister for accusing the organisation of feeding the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, hence delaying the signing of the final peace accord. Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, speaking last month at a cluster munitions conference in Kampala, accused Christian organisations like Caritas of giving the rebels a life-line. “Caritas should stop giving food to the rebels so that they get under pressure to sign the peace agreement,” he said. However, Caritas, a social pastoral arm of the Catholic Church, said the contract to supply food and medicine to the rebels at their assembly point in Ri-Kwangba ended when the signing of the peace deal flopped in April. Caritas’ director, Francis Ndamira, said they worked in consultation with Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, the chief government negotiator at the talks
Refugees flee LRA rebel attack JUBA - Thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fled into South Sudan to escape attacks by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, the UN said on Tuesday. “The team reported that an estimated 150 Congolese are still crossing daily from the DRC,” the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a statement, adding it had heard reports of attacks on villages with huts set ablaze and children abducted. The LRA agreed to a peace deal with the Ugandan government earlier this year but the group's leader Joseph Kony, wanted for war crimes by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, failed to appear at a signing ceremony in April. A period of uncertainty followed, with fresh LRA attacks followed by new promises by Kony to sign the agreement. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
