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U.N. chief meets rebel leader

Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony AP PHOTO

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, met face to face Nov. 12 with a Ugandan rebel chief wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.

Egeland held talks with the Lord's Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony (pictured), in a jungle clearing in southern Sudan in a bid to help free women and children enslaved by the group during their 20-year conflict with the Ugandan government.

After the talks, Egeland told journalists that the LRA had agreed to give the U.N. an assessment of how many women and children were in its camps.

Egeland is the first high-ranking U.N. official to meet Kony, who has declared himself a Christian prophet fighting to rule Uganda and its people by the Ten Commandments.

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