Joint attack on rebels
UGANDA, the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan launched a joint military offensive yesterday against Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in a remote north-east corner of the DRC.
The three governments agreed in principle in June to start joint operations against the LRA guerrillas – notorious for mutilating civilians and kidnapping children – if their leader, Joseph Kony, did not sign a peace deal to end two decades of conflict.
In a joint statement, the countries' military intelligence chiefs said: "The three armed forces successfully attacked the main body and destroyed the main camp of Kony, codenamed Camp Swahili, setting it on fire."
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