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Central African Republic held surrender talks with warlord Kony

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 21, 2013 00:48

UNITED NATIONS - The Central African Republic has been in contact with warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army fighters to urge them to surrender, but Kony's whereabouts are still unknown, the United Nations and the African Union said on Wednesday.

Kony, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, waged a brutal guerrilla war against Ugandan government in the north of the country for nearly two decades, before fleeing with his fighters into the jungles of central Africa around 2005.

A 5,000-strong African Union Regional Task Force, supported by about 100 US Special Forces, has been hunting Kony and his fighters. Most of them are thought to be hiding in jungles straddling the borders of Central African Republic, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo.

"The current military pressure has kept the LRA, including its leader Joseph Kony, on the run," the AU's special envoy on the LRA, Francisco Madeira, told the UN Security Council.

"This heightened pressure forced the LRA to try his time-tested tricks of buying time by duping the CAR authorities into "negotiations" to purportedly allow Kony and his LRA to "surrender" and re-settle in Nzako, CAR," he said.

Instead, Madeira said, according to the Regional Task Force Kony has used the negotiations as a window of opportunity to relocate many of his fighters to north-eastern CAR.

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