New UN mandates needed to stop LRA

A top UN official said today that the world body may have to change peace keepers' mandates in order to curb atrocities by Ugandan LRA rebels. Suzanna Malcora, the UN Under-Secretary General in the Department of Peace Keeping, was speaking in Uganda, which has successfully ended two decades of rebel operations in the north of the country. The LRA are now mostly operating in neighbouring countries including the DRCongo, Central African Republic and the south of Sudan, where the UN recently suspended aid to Western Equatoria province, following an upsurge in rebel attacks. Our reporter in Kampala, Joshua Mali sent us this: