KIGALI, March 16 (Reuters) - Governments in Africa's volatile Great Lakes region have listed more than 100 people wanted for alleged rebel activities, Rwanda's foreign minister said on Friday.

"Each one of our governments has submitted a list of wanted elements that we need to track down," Charles Murigande told reporters after a regional security meeting in Kigali.

He said the joint list would be forwarded to the United Nations and African Union before being made public.

But it is known to include fugitive militia commanders linked to killings during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, and senior officers of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels -- who are thought to be in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

An initial list submitted by DRC included two senior Ugandan figures -- an army brigadier and a younger brother of President Yoweri Museveni -- accused of plundering Congolese resources.

But after closed-door discussions they were deleted.

"We are happy the Congolese dropped these names," Isaac Musumba, a junior Ugandan minister, told Reuters.

Landmark polls in Congo, the election of a post-civil war government in Burundi and economic growth and reconstruction in Rwanda have raised hopes in the impoverished region.

But Great Lakes leaders have cautioned there is much to be done to safeguard peace and stability in an area that has been mired in conflict and ethnic tensions since Rwanda's genocide.

In December, they agreed a $225 million security action plan to disarm a host of rebels, mostly in eastern DRC, and nomadic warriors on the arid borders of Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.

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