The Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has denied reports it recently launched attacks and abducted children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.

LRA,"rebel spokesperson David Nyekorach-Matsanga said in a statement" The recent media reports of LRA attacks are fabricated and dangerous imaginations formulated by those bent on stifling the current peace process between Uganda and LRA.

However Nyekorach-Matsanga, said that there were many other armed militias operating in both DRC and South Sudan, and that the "malicious" reports should be cross-checked before blame was laid at the LRA's door.

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) on Tuesday demanded the immediate release of 90 schoolchildren it said the LRA had abducted in DR Congo the previous week.

Unicef also accused the LRA of killing villagers and abducting two Italian missionaries in the northeast of the sprawling nation, which borders Uganda.