Ugandan army officers have met a top commander of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels who is wanted by the International Criminal Court and in U.S. custody, Uganda's defense minister said Thursday.

LRA commander Dominic Ongwen, who faces trial at the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes and was one of the last senior aides to LRA leader and warlord Joseph Kony, surrendered this week in the Central African Republic.

A top commander of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel army has surrendered and is now in the custody of U.S. forces, the Ugandan army confirmed Wednesday.

Ugandan army spokesman Paddy Ankunda said top LRA commander Dominic Ongwen, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity and war crimes, gave himself up in Central African Republic.

Two men were burnt alive Saturday by civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east after they attacked a military office, a local official said.

The incident in the town of Beni, about 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of the North Kivu capital Goma, followed an attack on Friday night.

The multinational effort to bring peace to the war-torn east of Democratic Republic of Congo is in danger of failing, the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned Thursday.

In a damning report on the U.N.-backed push to pacify the region which has been ravaged by conflict for two decades, the think tank said "the entire stabilization agenda for the eastern provinces is at risk".

About 1,000 former fighters from a former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel group broke out Tuesday from a camp where they being held in Uganda just as soldiers were about to repatriate them, the Ugandan army said.

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 ex-rebel leader said Tuesday that several members were wounded when Ugandan troops tried to forcibly return them home.

The rebels' 18-month war, during which they briefly seized the key town of Goma, capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province, was brought to an end a year ago by government troops and U.N. peacekeepers, with fighters fleeing into neighboring Uganda and Rwanda.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Friday he will mobilize African leaders to quit the International Criminal Court, accusing it of being used as a "tool to target" the continent.

Museveni was cheered as he spoke at Kenya's independence day celebrations, after the collapse earlier this month of the ICC's crimes against humanity case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni has said the people don't want him to retire but that he doesn't "need power", ahead of a highly anticipated ruling party conference next week.

Museveni, aged 70 and Uganda's leader since 1986, has already been chosen as the ruling National Resistance Movement's (NRM) candidate for presidential elections due in 2016, but there have been increasing murmurs of discontent within some sections of the party.

Suspected Ugandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo hacked 36 people to death with machetes and axes, authorities said Sunday, as an outcry grew against the failure of the army and U.N. peacekeepers to stop a repeat of such massacres.

The overnight attack in the area of Beni in North Kivu province was the latest in a series of mass slaughter blamed on the mainly Muslim rebels who have terrorized the region for two decades.

Ugandan authorities said Friday they were drastically increasing security in the lead-up to the Christmas holiday period, with police and army chiefs urging increased public vigilance over potential militant attacks.

The move comes after Somalia's al-Qaida-affiliated Shebab rebels massacred 36 quarry workers in neighboring Kenya on Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks on that country's soil.