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DR Congo leader in Uganda peace talks with Sudanese mediator

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila.
by Staff Writers
 Kinshasa, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 5, 2008
 Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila met with the mediator in the Ugandan crisis on Friday to discuss the country's stalled peace agreement, Kabila's office told AFP.

Riek Machar, vice president of the South Sudan region and the chief negotiator in the peace talks between Kampala and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), travelled to DR Congo to discuss an overdue deal aimed at ending Uganda's two-decade-long civil war in the north.

Both Kabila's office and Sudan's embassy in DR Congo refused to reveal the content of the meeting between the two men. But a government source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said they discussed Uganda's peace accord.

Kampala and the LRA were meant to sign a peace deal in April, but rebel chief Joseph Kony refused to sign the accord because of arrest warrants against him and his lieutenants from the Hague-based International Criminal Court over war crimes.

The talks, sponsored by Sudan and the United Nations, have been repeatedly delayed since then including at the end of last month when Kony failed to show up at a signing ceremony held in southern Sudan.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million displaced in the two decades of fighting between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government.

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UN chief welcomes outcome of Burundi peace summit
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