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The Lord's Resistance Army has agreed to renew a two-month truce after meeting with Ugandan officials.

Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda's interior minister, also agreed to re-start failed peacetalks in Juba, the capital of south Sudan, on April 26, in their meeting on Saturday.

 

 

 

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Catholic group helping mediate the Juba talks said both sides had made significant progress in a week of secret, informal negotiations on the Kenyan coast.

 

The Lord's Resistance Army has agreed to renew a two-month truce after meeting with Ugandan officials.

Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda's interior minister, also agreed to re-start failed peacetalks in Juba, the capital of south Sudan, on April 26, in their meeting on Saturday.

The agreement also gave the LRA fighters a six-week deadline to assemble in Ri-Kwangba, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.

The new deal was witnessed by Joaquim Chissano, Mozambique's former president who is the United Nations' envoy charged with ending the two-decade conflict.

Peace talks between Uganda and the rebel group began last July in Juba, but effectively broke down in January amid mutual distrust and accusations of violating an earlier ceasefire.

But hopes for peace were rekindled this week when a Catholic group helping mediate the Juba talks said both sides had made significant progress in a week of secret, informal negotiations on the Kenyan coast.

The LRA is notorious for massacring civilians, mutilating victims and abducting thousands of children to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and uprooted nearly 2 million more.