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 KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan government forces began withdrawing to neutral positions Wednesday to provide northern rebels safe passage to two camps across the border in southern Sudan where they can be monitored until a final peace deal is reached to end 19 years of civil war.
Peace talks were set to resume Thursday in Juba, Sudan, focusing on details of a final agreement to end the insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Army.
A truce signed Saturday is aimed at ending the war between the Ugandan government and the rebels, notorious for cutting off the tongues and lips of innocent civilians, enslaving thousands of children, and driving nearly 2 million people from their homes in this east African nation.
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