Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, joined his deputy, Vincent Otti, at the Ri-Kwangba Camp, on Monday, in a boost for the Ugandan peace process.
Martin Ojul, the main rebel negotiator at the talks in the southern Sudan town of Juba, said the LRA supremo had arrived at the neutral encampment designated as an assembly point for rebels under a truce signed three weeks ago, writes IRINnews.
Northern Gulu Resident District Commissioner Walter Ochora, who has been coordinating the movement of rebels from northern Uganda to the southern Sudanese areas of Owiny Ki-Bul, said he was trying to confirm reports of Kony’s presence at the camp.
Under the truce that took effect on 29 August, the rebels are to stay at Ri-Kwangba and Owiny-Ki-Bul for the duration of the talks. Ri-Kwangba is near the southern Sudanese border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and is intended to house LRA members based in the forests of the eastern DRC, while Owiny-Ki-Bul is near the Sudanese border with Uganda and is designated for rebels in northern Uganda.
Ochora confirmed that most of the rebels who were supposed to converge in Owiny-Ki-Bul had already done so.
