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| Joseph Kony, leader of the much depleted Lord's Resistance Army, has avoided capture by moving through jungle and desert terrain. Photograph: Stuart Price/AP |
US officials have cast
doubt on reports that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is negotiating
his surrender in the Central African Republic.
CAR's president has said Kony, who is wanted for alleged war
crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been in talks with his
government.
A US State Department official told the BBC that some rebels had been in contact but Kony was not among them.
The US has offered up to $5m (£3.3m) for leads resulting in his arrest.
Kony founded the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda
more than 20 years ago, and his fighters are notorious for abducting
children to serve as sex slaves and child soldiers.
The US official also noted that Kony had
previously used "any and every pretext to rest, regroup, and rearm,
ultimately returning to kidnapping, killing, displacing and otherwise
abusing civilian populations".
The LRA was forced out of Uganda in 2005 and since then has
wreaked havoc in CAR, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kony was on the verge of signing a peace deal in 2008 but
insisted that the ICC first drop its arrest warrant, which it refused to
do.
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