The fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army is sick and in retreat from an international manhunt, defectors claim.

A roadside bomb struck a convoy carrying African Union peacekeepers in Somalia today, killing four peacekeepers in one of the deadliest attacks on the troops since they arrived in March, authorities said.

Mortar attacks on the Somali capital Mogadishu have prompted hundreds more people to flee from the city.

THE Ugandan government and Lord’s Resistance Army rebels are set to halt fighting after a brutal 19-year conflict that left thousands dead, officials said.

The Ugandan government and Lord’s Resistance Army rebels today agreed to a truce to end a brutal 19-year conflict that left thousands dead, officials said.