Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.

Some €4m of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has disclosed.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he has “no doubt” that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord’s Resistance Army leader.

TWENTY-ONE people died after a bus collided with a truck carrying fuel in northern Uganda yesterday.

UGANDAN LRA rebels have kidnapped at least 700 people in attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic since February last year, a rights group said yesterday.

A human rights group said today a Ugandan rebel group known for committing atrocities has killed at least 255 adults and children in the past 18 months in Congo and Central African Republic.

Diplomats were tonight trying to trace records of an Irish passport given to a US-based Russian spy on a debriefing mission.

More than 5,000 people whose lips and ears were cut off by rebels who have waged a more than 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda will receive compensation from the government, a presidential adviser said today.

ATTACKERS hacked to death scores of people who sought refuge at a Catholic church in remote eastern Congo the day after Christmas, officials and witnesses said yesterday.

A new form of the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in an outbreak in western Uganda that has so far killed 16 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.

ALICE Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, has been laid to rest at a funeral attended by several hundred followers.

The chief mediator of talks aimed at ending northern Uganda’s civil war has called both sides back to talks next week, but acknowledges the rebels might not come.

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, met a Ugandan rebel leader wanted for war crimes today.

Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has told journalists that he is committed to negotiating peace after 19 years of war, and denied he has committed war crimes.

THE rate of violent deaths in northern Uganda is three times that of Iraq when taken in proportion of total population, reveals a new report by a coalition of humanitarian organisations.

THE UN humanitarian chief travelled to northern Uganda over the weekend to highlight what he called a forgotten humanitarian crisis, with about two million people made homeless and tens of thousands of children abducted in the region's 20-year insurgency.

Seven African leaders today reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Ugandan voters lined up in car parks, village squares and empty fields before dawn today to choose between the leader who has ruled the country for 20 years and four challengers.

Ireland will fully back reforms to make the UN a more effective body during 2006, it was claimed today.

A year of disasters around the world sparked an unprecedented outpouring of aid, but richer nations still are not giving enough money to tackle lingering humanitarian crises, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief says.

A British aid worker has been ambushed and fatally shot by Ugandan rebels in southern Sudan, officials said today.

Proposals to send up to 30 Irish troops to help the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in the United States were dismissed as ludicrous today by a leading humanitarian worker.

Rebels in northern Uganda ambushed a truckload of civilians that included school children and killed seven people, prompting an army counterattack that left three rebels dead, officials said today.

Ugandans voted today on whether to allow multiparty politics after 19 years of President Yoweri Museveni’s so-called “no-party democracy”.

Northern Uganda is the world’s biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, with 20,000 kidnapped children, many of them forced to serve as combatants, says the head of UN humanitarian affairs.

World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.

AID workers who were forced to leave two refugee camps in Chad because of violence have resumed their operations.

Rebels attacked a village in northern Uganda, hacking to death 11 people including four children.

Ugandan rebels burned and looted six villages in remote southern Sudan, killing at least 100 people and forcing some 15,000 to flee, a religious leader and Sudanese rebels said.

Rebels fighting an 18-year insurgency raided a village in northern Uganda, hacking and burning to death at least 25 people, including eight children, an army spokesman said today.

Ugandan helicopter gunships killed 54 insurgents after shelling a group of 250 rebel fighters based in neighbouring southern Sudan, an army spokesman said today.

Government troops backed by helicopter gunships attacked rebel bases in remote hills in northern Uganda, killing 11 insurgents.

The Ugandan army has killed 21 rebels who took part in last weekend’s bloody raid on a refugee camp in northern Uganda that killed scores of civilians.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni apologised yesterday for a rebel attack in northern Uganda last weekend that killed dozens of people, and blamed it on army mistakes.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today blamed last weekend’s devastating rebel attack in northern Uganda on “mistakes” by the army and apologised to the region’s people.

THE Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has earned a terrifying reputation for its brutality against the people of northern Uganda, has abducted an estimated 20,000 children over the years.

Government forces swept through villages in northern Uganda today in pursuit of rebels who killed nearly 200 unarmed civilians seeking shelter at a displaced persons’ camp.

SCORES of rebels attacked a displaced persons' camp in northern Uganda, shooting people as they fled and burning others alive in their huts.

Scores of rebels fighting a 17-year insurgency in northern Uganda attacked a camp for displaced people, killing more than 100 people, a Roman Catholic priest said today.

REBELS in northern Uganda have killed more than 100 civilians during five days of raids, the head of the regional government said yesterday.

THOUSANDS of frightened children are spending the night outdoors in a northern Ugandan town to avoid being grabbed

More than 50 people have been burned and hacked to death when rebels attacked a village in northern Uganda.

Suspected rebels have ambushed a minibus carrying restaurant and hotel management students through a national park in northern Uganda, killing 11 people.

Ugandan health officials are conducting a countdown as they work towards declaring the outbreak of Ebola fever over in Uganda with only one death reported in the last six days.