Caritas to provide supplies to Ugandan rebels assembling in Sudan

Published: 2006-11-27

KAMPALA, Uganda (CNS) -- Caritas Uganda is to provide food, sanitation facilities, medicine and other nonfood items to the guerrilla Lord's Resistance Army when it assembles in southern Sudan under the terms of a recent peace agreement. The rebels are to assemble at two designated points in southern Sudan, according to the Aug. 26 peace agreement they signed with the Ugandan government. In early November, the Ugandan government set a Dec. 1 deadline for the rebels to assemble at the designated points or the government would withdraw from the ongoing peace talks in Juba, Sudan. Vincent Sebukyu, deputy director of Caritas Uganda, told Catholic News Service the role of Caritas Uganda will be to assist in speeding up the peace process by providing supplies to the assembling rebels. Sebukyu said distributing the resources at the right places at the right time and securing appropriate funding would be a challenge.

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