Kampala — TWO more Lord's Resistance Army rebels have surrendered to the UPDF intelligence squad in Nzara in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State.

'Sergeant' Onen Alex and Moses Kabo turned themselves in last week, an anonymous source told the Sudan Tribune.

The two fighters said they hailed from Gulu and were part of the LRA group that was operating in the Faradje area in eastern Congo.

The group's overall commanders, 'Col.' Charles Arop and Charles Ukuti, surrendered earlier this month after most of their men had either defected or been killed.

The unit of originally 71 rebels had been operating around Faradje since late last year and was responsible for the Christmas massacre of at least 143 people.

Military sources estimate the total number of LRA rebels left in the Democratic Republic of Congo at 80. The rest crossed to the Central African Republic, together with their leader, Joseph Kony.

Kabo told journalists at the UPDF military base in Nzara that he was captured in 1995 in Lira district.

"Conditions in the bush have become inhuman. Torrential rains and constant movements in the wildness have forced many to surrender," Kabo stated.