Uganda: Revised Govt-LRA Ceasefire Deal Signed

Talks aimed at ending two decades of fighting in northern Uganda, were given a boost on Wednesday (1 November 2006) with the signing of a revamped truce in Juba, south Sudan, officials said. The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ended a week-long impasse when they penned the landmark agreement. Under the latest ceasefire, the LRA will return to two previously abandoned neutral sites in southern Sudan which they had fled fearing attacks from the Ugandan army.