Uganda: Mediator to Meet Kony Today

South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar, the chief mediator in peace talks between the Ugandan Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was to meet LRA leader Joseph Kony in Ri-Kwangba today, according to Uganda Government sources. This development follows the failed signing of a peace pact with the Government of Uganda by the LRA leader earlier this month. Kony cited insufficient information about the traditional court system under which the LRA would be tried in Uganda as the reason why he did not sign the agreement. He also needed assurances that he would not be handed over to the ICC. The meeting with the mediator should supply more assurances and hopefully bring a settlement to the on again-off again peace process.

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