Uganda's Amnesty Commission announced yesterday that it has resettled over 700 former LRA rebels in Apac and Lira districts. The commission, set up after the Amnesty Act of 2000 to facilitate the surrender of LRA rebels and their reintegration into civilian life, said that most of those resettled were abducted as children by the LRA. As part of the resettlement process, they are given hoes, blankets, saucepans, plastic cups and plates, seeds of maize and beans. Read more at today's Monitor.