Source: Aug 24, 2008 Reuters report, copied here below:
Uganda rebels accuse south Sudan of attackSource: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnWAL471739.html
Sun Aug 24 2008 KAMPALA (Reuters South Africa)
A spokesman for Uganda's fugitive northern rebels accused south Sudanese troops of attacking guerrilla positions on Sunday on the Congo border, preventing a peace meeting.
Officials from the South Sudanese Liberation Army (SPLA) could not immediately be reached for comment, and there was no independent confirmation of the clash.
"Sometime last week there was a skirmish after SPLA attacked our positions," David Nyekorach-Matsanga, a spokesman for Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, said by telephone from the south Sudanese capital Juba.
"We thought that was a mistake. But today they repeated it when they attacked LRA at Nabanga."
He gave no other details, but said a planned meeting in the area between LRA representatives and their elusive leader Joseph Kony had been cancelled.
A two-decade civil war in northern Uganda forced 2 million people from their homes and also destabilised neighbouring parts of oil-producing south Sudan and mineral-rich eastern Congo.
Kony is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Two years of peace talks collapsed in April when he failed to appear on the border to sign a final peace deal.
At an African Union summit in Egypt last month, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa warned that the LRA leader was re-arming.
(Reporting by Frank Nyakairu; editing by Daniel Wallis and Tim Pearce)
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Map showing Sudan/DR Congo border
Map courtesy Google news/Aug 2008 archive http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com
(Cross posted today at sister sites Uganda Watch http://ugandawatch.blogspot.com
and Sudan Watch http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com)
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