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Sudan visit seeks to "pre-empt" Kony return

    NAIROBI
    Northern Uganda officials were planning to meet with the Sudanese government over its support for rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news agencies said. The semi-official 'New Vision' newspaper quoted Gulu district chairman Walter Ochola as saying his team would travel to Sudan to meet National Assembly speaker Hassan al Turabi "and tell him to stop supporting rebel leader Joseph Kony's war which is killing the innocent people in Acholi." A media source in Gulu told IRIN on Friday that the Khartoum mission was an attempt by Ochola to "pre-empt" a planned return of Kony to northern Uganda in about a month.

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