The Ugandan military says it will pull its soldiers from the Central African Republic where they are currently participating in an African Union mission hunting the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, according to a media report.

Military spokesperson Paddy Ankunda said Uganda's 2500 troops will leave CAR before the end of this year because the LRA no longer poses a threat to Uganda, AP news service reported.

"The rebels have been sufficiently degraded," Ankunda was quoted as saying.

The Ugandan military also has presence in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state as part of the AU mission against the LRA.

It is believed that the LRA, led by Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony, has taken refuge around the Kafia Kinji enclave bordering eastern CAR, Sudan's South Darfur state, and Raja county of South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state.

File photo: LRA fighters