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 RI-KWANGBA, Sudan (AP) - The U.N.'s top humanitarian official helicoptered to a jungle clearing on Sunday to meet with a Ugandan rebel leader accused of war crimes, but he failed to secure immediate freedom for women and children held captive by the insurgent group.
The U.N.'s Jan Egeland waited for two hours at the clearing in southern Sudan before meeting the Lord Resistance Army's messianic leader Joseph Kony, who emerged from the bush with 30 bodyguards dressed in Wellington boots and ragtag clothes, bayonets fixed to their assault rifles.
Kony and Egeland exchanged a brief, formal handshake before speaking for 10 minutes under a green tent erected by the United Nations. Egeland was seeking to secure the release of women and children enslaved by the group during their 20-year conflict with the Ugandan government.
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