GULU, Uganda, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Fighting resumed between Ugandan troops and northern rebels of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) on Saturday after a temporary truce to facilitate peace talks ran out, the army said.

President Yoweri Museveni said in a New Year message the army would now attack the LRA until it vowed to disarm.

"The (military) operations will not cease ever again until the Kony group irreversibly commit themselves to come out of the bush," he said, referring to LRA leader Joseph Kony.

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KITGUM, Uganda, Dec 31 (AFP) - Intense negotiations got under way Friday between Uganda's government and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels to agree on a ceasefire text to end 18 years of bloody conflict, officials said.

The two sides held their very first face-to-face talks at Ludwa, near the northern border with Sudan, on Wednesday to discuss a ceasefire in a north Ugandan war which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced 1.6 million people.

They decided to reach a ceasefire accord

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Une révolution verte en Afrique

Révolution verte: le cas de l'Ouganda

Par Alex Tindimubona et Jacques Hamel

Le triangle de Luwero, au centre de l'Ouganda, est une zone qui a été dévastée par la guerre dans les années 80. En 1998, à la ?n des hostilités après le retour des habitants, les chercheurs de l'Uganda National Banana Research Program du Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute ont apporté leur concours pour remettre en état le système de production agricole de Luwero sur la base des principes de la révolution

KAMPALA, 30 December (IRIN) - The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have agreed to sign a general ceasefire agreement to pave the way for formal negotiations to end the 18-year conflict in the north peacefully, sources said.

"We are preparing to sign it tomorrow (Friday) in Kitgum," the Ugandan internal affairs minister, Ruhakana Rugunda, who is leading the government negotiating team to talks with the rebels, told IRIN on Thursday. "We are still agreeing on the text

UPDF spokesman based in the north Lt. Paddy Ankunda was quoted by the state-owned newspaper as saying that the

The consultations between the religious leaders and the commanders of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), taking place at an undisclosed location near the Sudanese border will be followed by talks between the rebel leadership and the government of president Yoweri Museveni who in mid-November offered a ceasefire to the rebels.

"The religious leaders started talking

"WFP fed some 2.85 million people in 2004 in an enormous operation in which, on average, we distributed 16,500 tonnes of food each month in Uganda, making it one of the agency's biggest country operations after Ethiopia, North Korea and Sudan," WFP Country Director Ken Davies said.

"Throughout this difficult year, we have been operating from hand-to-mouth, but the international community,