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Sudan Aids UPDF

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
August 3, 2004
Posted to the web August 3, 2004

By Alfred Wasike
Kampala
IN the final hunt to capture the Lord's Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony,
the Sudan People's Armed Forces (SPAF) has boosted the Uganda People's Defence
Forces (UPDF) with key intelligence and air surveillance systems to track down
the rebels' last bastion in the jungles of southern Sudan.
SPAF has also blocked Kony and his last troops now fleeing UPDF's northward-
bound pursuit from escaping beyond Juba.
SPAF's Brigadier Moham-med Habib and Brig. Kale Kaihura, Ugandan army chief
political commissar/ military assistant to President Yoweri Museveni, said they
were commited to ending the 18-year long war in a rare meeting at Malu, 15 km
south of Juba in Sudan on Friday.
As a show of goodwill, SPAF supplied the UPDF with several sacks of maize
flour, sugar and other food to prolonged cheers from their Ugandan counterparts
who, in a blistering attack last week scattered Kony's hide-out in well
disguised training camps at Biri-nyang, 4km away from Malu.
Brig Habib said, "We promise to supply you with every piece of intelligence on
Kony's movements that our forces gather. Our planes fly together with yours in
the air surveillance to monitor the movements of Kony and his terrorists. We
are doing joint monitoring."

   

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