Uganda wants charities to stop giving aid to rebels. Ugandan leaders want to starve rebel leaders into ending the country’s 20-year-old war. The Minister for Disaster Preparedness Tarsis Kabwegyere is asking that charities stop giving food aid to the rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), so its members will be starved out of their camps and be more likely to sign a peace deal with the government. The LRA backed out of signing an agreement earlier this year because some of their leaders had international arrest warrants. And Kabwegyere thinks they manipulated the talks to get food and medicine.  ”Whoever is giving food to LRA should say, ‘We’re giving you food only when you can sign,’” he told the BBC. The rebel group’s leader, Joseph Kony, should “know that ending the war is the best thing to do,” he continued. Many in the LRA have moved to camps on the Sudan-Congo border. Just last week, 75,000 people escaped LRA-led fighting in the Congo. Two million people were made homeless during the 20-year war.

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