Kampala  - An agreement expected to end two decades of civil war in the north of Uganda is expected to be signed November 30, now that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has finally agreed to peace, Ugandan officials said Monday.

"(LRA leader) Joseph Kony has agreed to turn up to sign the agreement," Ugandan army spokesman Major Paddy Ankunda told a news conference.

Kampala- Uganda has protested to Germany over the arrest of a Rwandan government official accused of involvement in the assassination of a former Rwandan president, a Ugandan official said Friday.

Rose Kabuye, chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was arrested in Frankfurt Sunday on a French warrant.

She is suspected of having been involved in the assassination of Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana - an act that sparked the 1994 genocide of up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Kampala - At least 20 people died instantly and an unknown number was rushed to hospitals after a bus with failed brakes rammed into a column of 15 commuter vehicles in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, press reports said Thursday.

Brakes in the overcrowded bus entering Kampala from upcountry failed Wednesday night as it was ascending an road escarpment, the Kampala-based Central Broadcasting Service (CBS) radio station reported.

The bus rolled down the road, sweeping aside 15 commuter taxis and several other vehicles. The number of fatalities is believed to be much higher than 20, CBS said.

Kampala - At least 20 people died after a brake failure caused an overcrowded bus to crash into a row of taxis late Wednesday in Kampala.

The brakes failed as the bus was edging up an incline. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it rolled down the road, colliding with at least 15 taxis and a few other vehicles.

The death toll could be much higher and many injured passengers were rushed to hospital, Central Broadcasting Service radio reported.

Kampala  - Most of the estimated 30,000 children abducted by Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its two- decade-long war with the government were sold to fight in Sudan's restive Darfur province, Uganda's Daily Monitor reported Wednesday.

The children were first forced by the LRA to fight and commit atrocities. Afterward, they were sold to various rebel armies in Darfur to fight or to serve as sex slaves, the newspaper quoted Stephen Kagoda, permanent secretary in the Ministry for Internal Affairs, as telling parliament.

Kampala - Three vehicles collided near Kampala late Friday night killing at least 20 people, many of them children, according to radio reports and witnesses.

The accident took place in Buryantente village, 45 kilometers east of the capital Kampala, when a school bus, a cement-carrying trailer and a small truck crashed into each other, Central Broadcasting Service radio reported.