The Ugandan government and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have signed a new agreement in the latest round of talks. A five-part peace process is envisaged, with the issue of war crimes remaining a problem with the ICC indictment on the one hand, and the attempts by both Uganda and LRA to find alternative ways of addressing human rights abuses locally rather then sending Kony and his people to The Hague.
Project Preparation
In the second half of June a two person Advance Team arrived in Uganda: Oloo Otieno (Kenya) who earlier served as a FTM in Sri Lanka and who is the designated Project Director for a project in North Uganda, and Shall Sinha (Canada) who had already spent two months in Uganda mostly for fundraising purposes in January and February. Their main task is to re-assess the need for a NP project in North Uganda given the quickly changing circumstances in that area. We hope to have a report ready for the IGC around or even before the International Assembly in Nairobi in late September.