Kampala- Uganda said Tuesday that its forces are engaged in a multi-national offensive against Ugandan rebels in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to force its leaders back into recently collapsed peace talks.

Nairobi/Kampala - Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan have attacked the base of Ugandan rebels holed up in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, military officials said Monday.

Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), failed to turn up to sign a peace agreement on November 29.

He has repeatedly stalled on signing a final agreement and it now appears that patience with him has run out.

A joint statement from the three armies said that Kony's main camp in the Garamba region of DR Congo had been attacked over the weekend and burned down.

Nairobi, Kampala - Uganda on Friday confirmed that the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will pull out should Ethiopia stick to its promise of withdrawing its troops before the end of the

Kampala - Ugandan legislators have drafted a bill that will allow those who practise female genital mutilation to be sentenced to seven years in prison, reports said Friday.

Kampala  - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to meet directly with the head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in a bid to salvage faltering talks aimed at bringing an end a long-running civil war, a government newspaper reported Tuesday.

Reclusive guerrilla commander Joseph Kony, who is currently holed up in the jungles of the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declined to sign the draft peace agreement on November 29 and has now given other conditions including that he should have direct talks with the Ugandan leader.

"Museveni said he is willing to have direct talks with Kony anytime," The New Vision newspaper quoted the deputy leader of the government peace team, Henry Okello Oryem, as saying.

Kampala- Children are being increasingly decapitated and their bodies cut up in ritual sacrifices, the Ugandan government said Thursday.

"Child sacrifice has confronted the nation with its ferocity, barbarity as well as frequency," Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo told reporters. "It has become a national danger."