Ugandan church leader urges U.N. to help Great Lakes peace process

Published: 2006-02-01

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A church leader from Uganda urged the U.N. Security Council to take a comprehensive approach to ending the 20-year war between Ugandan rebels and the government. Archbishop John Odama of Gulu, Uganda, told members of the Security Council in an informal meeting -- where the archbishop represented his archdiocese and an interfaith peace initiative as a civil society expert -- that the only way to solve the war in Uganda and conflicts in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan is to implement a strategy that is not isolated and will solve the shared problems of the Great Lakes region in Africa. While the United Nations has troops in Congo to stabilize that country, "as they are doing that, make sure northern Uganda is peaceful and Sudan," the archbishop told Catholic News Service in a Jan. 27 telephone interview from New York. "The issue is now a situation in the Congo because it spilled over from Uganda."

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