Ugandan Government, Rebels Begin Talks

JUBA, South Sudan - Uganda called Sunday for rebels to disarm to end a 19-year insurgency as peace talks got under way in Sudan.

The Ugandan government delegation to the talks in Juba, the south Sudanese capital, said the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, should "renounce and abandon all forms of terrorism ... cease all forms of hostilities ... dissolve itself and hand over all arms and ammunitions in its possession together with their inventory."

South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar is mediating the negotiations behind closed doors.

Southern Sudan is pushing to resolve the insurgency in neighboring northern Uganda because it wants to secure its own territory …