Sudan renews hunt-Kony pact

Nov 21, 2002

President Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Sudan had agreed to renew a protocol allowing the UPDF to pursue LRA rebels inside Sudan

By Vision Reporters

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Sudan had agreed to renew a protocol allowing the UPDF to pursue LRA rebels inside Sudan.

“The minister (of defence) has informed me that they have agreed to renew it. They either disarm Kony themselves or they allow us to do it. They can’t do neither,” Museveni told Parliament yesterday.

A high-powered Sudanese delegation arrived in the country on Wednesday for talks on the protocol. Earlier reports said Sudan would not renew the protocol.

“The Sudanese stopping support for Kony, are not doing me a favour. They should not have supported him in the first place. It’s our right. They should not have sent armed people into our country,” Museveni said. He said Uganda had stopped providing logistical support to the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).

He said the SPLA was no longer receiving weapons from Uganda and the best they can expect is permission to transit through Uganda.

“We have never had SPLA on Uganda soil. They have never had training camps here. But Kony is in Sudan,” the President said.

“We need a mechanism to prove that we stopped supplying SPLA with arms. One time we agreed that Egyptians and Libyans patrol the borders,” he said.

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