Triangling West Nile and a bit of Southern Sudan

I am moving a bit in and out of cyberspace for some days. I am off to Koboko and Moyo in a bit for a farewell party for Beatriz, the manager of the Danish Refugee Council in Moyo this afternoon.

Then on Saturday another farewell-party in Kajo Keji about an hour across the border in Southern Sudan for Erik, the leaving DRC manager there.

Then back from Kajo Keji, over Moyo, to Koboko on Sunday for a re-pack of the car, and then off to Yei in Southern Sudan, where I will be probably untill Friday next week.

The car is being cleaned now, and packed with our new Education for Peace pamphlets, the democracy material - and lots of cheese in the cooler bag, apparently a prerequisite for receiving an invitation by the DRC to a function in Sudan!

Don't download and use this map, I added on Koboko and Kajo Keji, and I doubt these small towns are placed 100% correct.

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[LADO]

QUOTE :

Don't download and use this map, I added on Koboko and Kajo Keji, and I doubt these small towns are placed 100% correct.

COMMENT :

When you travel Southern Sudan and West Nile as you put it , you are actually travelling Ladoland which the British cancelled it from World Maps and given to this Land Kingdom State the two strange foreign name as Southern Sudan and West Nile in its divided part .

SEE OF THE 29 TRIBES OF LADO :

1 LUGBARI

2 MADI

3 KAKWA / KAKUA KEJI- KEJO / KUKU

4 BARI

5 MORU

6 AVUKAYA

7 LENDU

8 KEBU / NDU

9 MAKARAKA

10 GBAKA / BAKA

11 BONGO

12 GIMARA

13 ZAKI - KAKUA

14 KELIKO

15 ANYARA

16 AZENDE

17 ALUR / JONAM LUO PEOPLE .

18 UELE

19 LOTUKA

20 MAMVU

21 MANGBETU

22 MEJE

23 MAKERE

24 MALELE

25 MAPOPOI

26 MUNDU

27 TOPOSA

28 JONAM

29 RIGBO / MADI OR LUGBARI

Browse in or Click on below to see the Map of Lado ( sometimes before the Belgians called the Lado Enclave - Equatoria in Africa ) :

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lado_enclave_map.jpg

Browse in or Click on below to read of LADO NEWS page :

http://www.npi-news.dk/page37.htm

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By Ronald Lulua

( LADO )

[LADO]

GET KNOWING MORE OF THE PROBLEMS OF WEST NILE / LADO WHICH IS NOT AT PEACE AT ALL TILL TODAY AS YOU ARE NOT REPORTING REALLY --

PEACE TALKS IN JUBA AND ITS EFFECTS ON LADO

History _ Talks

---- A REPLICATION OF UGANDA PEACE PACTS ---

It was on Tuesday , December 27 , 1985 a Peace Pact Agreement which was reportedly aimed to put an end to the Internal confrontations in Uganda . and was said to have been signed in the Kenyan capital , Nairobi . The Agreement was reported to have been a Peace Agreement for Uganda . It was therefore to have been called the Uganda Peace Pact Package or the Uganda Peace Agreement of 1985 or simply the Nairobi Agreement of 1985 . The text meaning of the so called Uganda Peace Pact / Ageement already had indications available that could enble to formulate broad views on it .

Notable . The problem of Uganda is one of Identity crisis , Legitimacy crisis and the issue of Sovereignty , which is still held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland .

In realiity , the so - called Uganda Peace Agreement of 1985 was an Agreement between the Luo / Nilotic people , on the one hand , and the Bantu people , on the other hand , both the Luo / Nilotic people and the Bantu people being from the East Nile / Uganda . Properly stating , the so - called Uganda Peace Agreement of 1985 was a Luo - Bantu Peace Agreement for the East Nile / Uganda .

The Luo interests were represented by Acholi people and the Bantu interests by Ankole people . Lieut - General Tito Okello , an Acholi heading the Luo interests and Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni , a Muhima from Ankole heading the Bantu interests . Both signed the Agreement .

In short , the so - called Uganda Peace Agreement of 1985 was a Re - Unification of the fighting forces of the Uganda National Liberation Army ( UNLA ) , which was the Military of the Uganda National Liberation Front ( UNLF ) , formed during the Moshi Agreement of March , 1979 , in Tanzania . To undrestand this , a brief background History of events are needed to clarify the present - day situation of clouds hanging out here over the so - called Uganda Peace Pact Agreements of Nairobi 1985 and the today 's transformed as another Peace Pact Agreement to be reached in the Juba Talks . ( Replication of the Nairobi Peace pacts going on in Juba on Ladoland now . ) The only difference being in the fact that the discussions today are being carried out on the the piece Land of Lado but not in Kenya or in the Sudan State .The world is being deceived that there is already an existing State in AFRICA - a so called - Southern Sudan State with a full recognised Governament in function .A fiction name to replace the Kingdom / State of Lado by the Occupants . It must be clear on the minds of the people of this World that the Government in Exile of the State / Kingdom of Lado has no role - play in these Peace Agreements of Uganda Orchestrated Peace pacts neither before in Narroibi nor in the present forms going on in Juba . The hopes of Lado People is to see that as a Neighbouring State , Uganda does accept to resettle the Acholi - Nilotic people in their rightful homeland in East Nile / Uganda and fully to participate in the politics of Uganda .

To begin with , the aims or objectives of the Moshi Conference, in Tanzania , attended by the 28 groups from the East Nile / Uganda during the period March 23 - 29 , 1979 , under the Chairmanship of Professor Tarsis B . Kabwegyere , a Muiru from Ankole , were .

a ) / - to remove the Idi Amin regime ;

b ) / - to establish democracy in Uganda without the West Nile / Lado ;

c ) / - to re - establish National Independence in East Nile / Uganda .

The implication of b ) above was that the West Nile / Lado was not needed in and was not to be considered as part of Uganda . And , the implication of c ) above was that Uganda was not Independent during the eight - year period Rule of 1971 - 1979 when it was ruled by the West Nile / Lado , with General Idi Amin Dada , a Kakua Tribe from Lado , as the President .

The outcome of the Moshi Conference of March 23 - 29 , 1979 . was the formation of the Uganda National Liberation Front ( UNLF ), which constited of an Executve Council , a Legislative Council known as the National Consultative Council ( NCC ) , and a Military Commission known as the Uganda National Liberation Army ( UNLA ) and sometimes refered to as the Military wing of the ( UNLF ) .

Togetherwith the Tanzanian Peoples Defence Forces ( TPDF ) and Forces from other countries in Africa and outside Africa , ( specifically from the Commonwealth Countries ) , the UNLA fought the Ugandan WAR of 1978 / 9 against the West Nile / Lado . The only point to mention in this regard ; there was a UNLA Section of a Luo people of Uganda on one hand , and another UNLA section of Bantu people of Uganda , on the other hand . The two Sections of the UNLA had only one and the same aim : to Liberate the East Nile / Uganda from being ruled by the Sudanic People of the West Nile / Lado , who were described and regarded as Foreigners in East Nile / Uganda .

The UNLA and their Tanzanian and other Allies succeeded in April 13 , 1979 , the UNLF Government was Sworn in , in Kampala , with Mr . Yusuf Lule ( to represent the largest tribe in Uganda - the Baganda interest in Uganda - ) as the President of the Liberated Uganda / East Nile . From that moment , President Lule declared that there was the Nile between " us " , meaning that the East Nile / Uganda and the West Nile / Lado . The people of West Nile / Lado were Deprived of their Ugandan Citizenship in the Broad Legal sense . This issue was confirmed by the Ugandan Minister of Information , Mr . Aterker Ejalu , during the International Conference on Refugeese in Africa at Arusha , in May , 1979 .

From May 12 , 1980 , some new events were in sight .

a / - Mr Apollo Milton Obote was received in Uganda like a Head of State on his return from Exile in Tanzania . Mr Yoweri Museveni did not break off from the UNLA or the UNLF as a sign of Protest against this ;

b / - One of the intrigues that was used was to impose Mr Obote as the President of Uganda , was for the massacres of the Sudanic People in the West Nile / Lado from October 1980 , and Mr Yoweri Museveni was the Vice - Chaiman of the Ruling Military Commission which Ordered the UNLA and the militia to carry out those massacres .

It follows that Mr . Museveni took part in imposing Mr . Obote as the President of Uganda in 1980 . But , once Mr Obote got to power in December , 1980 , he did not give Mr . Museveni any post at all .

Thereafter , Mr Museveni broke off from the UNLA and formed the Uganda National Resistance Army ( UNRA ) to fight Mr . Obote inorder to search for an Executve Position in the Government of Uganda . Being unable to defeat , militarily , the UNLA Section under the Luo People control , Mr . Museveni agrreed , following the over - throw of President Obote on July 27 , 1985 , to negotiate for the post of Vice -Chairman of the Ruling Military Council . which post was being held by Colonel Wilson Toko , a Lugbari Tribe from West Nile / Lado . And , the UNLA , controlled by the Acholi - Luo tribe , agreed to negotiate with him because they were unable to dislodge his UNRA forces .

This Background information has been summarised by two West European newspapers in the following terms :

1 . Le Monde - Dimanche 8 - Lunedi 9 september 1985 :

Translations : " Mr . Museveni would perhaps be tempted to want power for himself all alone . Few observers are prepared to understand to say that , once in , power , he would conduct himself as a true democrat " .

Quotations : " M. Museveni serait peut - ètre tentè de vouloir le pouvoir pour lui tout seul : peu d'observateurs sont prèts sois , à parier qu'une aux affaires il se comporterait come un vrai dèmocrate " .

2 The Guardian - Tuesday , December 17 , 1985

" The National Resistance Army Leader , Yoweri Museveni , said he had accepted the post of Vice - Chaiman of the Ruling Military Council , a position he has long sought ." .

Hence , there can be no question that the so - called Uganda Peace Agreement of 1985 will solve the political problem and crisis in the East / Uganda, on the one hand , and the pollitical conflict betwwen East Nile / Uganda and the West Nile / Lado , on the other hand . That Agreement was only a military Convinience which helps to alleviate the thirst of individuals for power . This Same Peace pact as a replication is going on in Juba now - in the Year , 2006 . Mr Museveni is quite happy seeing that , this time , there are no Lado People Representations on their Peace Talks . But , He forgets one thing ------------- ?

[ARIAKA]

I had my triangulation of WestNile in 2003. Well, it was rather encyclical in the true sense of the word.

I started off at Gulu on a sunny dusty afternoon that March day and left very exhausted to Adjumani.

Then, the LRA war was full throttle and any sojourn through the bushes to corner Kilak required the convoy. Mean looking soldiers, slow moving vehicles and apprehensive passengers was my experience.

With a big heave, I was relieved to be in Pajule nine hours later.

Two days later, after communing with top district leadership, I boarded the ferry to Moyo. Watching the Nile, with papyrus growing in the centre give me the feeling that we are losing the river to land and that human activity on the river out to be reviewed.

Disemarking at Moyo Nile Bank one hour later, I could not miss to savour the angara fish. Roasted and salted to my utter tasteful delight.

Driving on a queer kind of road; slabs of concrete two kilometres long up onto Moyo town.

Then drifting down westwards near the Sudan boarder to Yumbe, southwards to Koboko, Nyadri and finally to Arua town. A distance about 200km but takes a 10 hours to manage.

Dusty, hungry and sapped of strength I saunter to a hotel for a warm birth, quick snack and promptly hit the sack.

The next day, see some home guys, old boys and book the torturous journey to Kampala.