A truce between the Ugandan army and guerrillas has started in what both sides say may mark the end of one of Africa's longest conflicts.
Under the pact signed on Saturday at talks in southern Sudan, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have three weeks to assemble at two camps in southern Sudan while negotiations continue to end their two-decade insurrection.
Both sides have committed to cease hostilities, and a Ugandan military intelligence chief was due to announce safe passage routes for the rebels on the radio in the evening.
Fighters were not expected immediately to begin coming in from their hideouts.
Nearly two million people have been uprooted in northern Uganda by fighting between troops and the LRA, which won notoriety for massacring civilians, mutilating survivors and forcing thousands of abducted children to serve in its ranks.
The military said President Yoweri Museveni had ordered troops to halt all search and destroy missions and only to shoot at the LRA in defence of civilians or of themselves.
The LRA's top leaders, including Joseph Kony and his deputy Vincent Otti, are wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), and have so far stayed hidden in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
LRA officials have insisted both men will move to the Sudan camps within the three-week deadline.
