DRC and Uganda to Discuss Joint Operations Against Rebels
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October 30, 2024 Hour: 1:29 pm
The Armed Forces of the DRC and Uganda (UPDF) decided in early October to continue joint operations against the ADF rebels, following a meeting of several days where they evaluated their activities initiated on November 30, 2021.
On Wednesday, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, arrived today in Entebbe, Uganda, for a working visit of a few hours during which he will meet with his counterpart Yoweri Museveni.
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The two leaders will meet alone at the State House, but according to a message from the Congolese Presidency on the social network X, the subject of the talks will be the security situation in eastern DRC.
According to the source, they will in particular devote attention to the evolution of the joint operations carried out by the armed forces of the two countries against the “terrorists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri”.
The Armed Forces of the DRC and Uganda (UPDF) decided in early October to continue joint operations against the ADF rebels, following a meeting of several days where they evaluated their activities initiated on November 30, 2021.
As a result of this new stage of work, security prevailed on Wednesday in the territory of Beni, North Kivu province, according to the military administrator of that region, Colonel Charles Ehuta Omeanga.
According to the authority, for a month now, the sound of gunfire has not been heard throughout the territory.
“From Maboya, Kisalala, Kainama, Eringeti, Kyavinyonge, Mutwanga and Kamango, I have not yet received news of any incursion, although in past years I never spent three hours in my office without receiving a message about an incursion,” Ehuta Omeanga referred, according to the Congolese Press Agency.
He added that patrols are carried out every day, together with Ugandan forces, and stressed the willingness of the country’s leadership to eradicate the ADF.
“Things are going well in terms of security,” said the military administrator of the Beni territory.
Last October 18, the joint forces announced the neutralization of two leaders of the armed group.
According to the spokesman of the operational sector Sokola 1 Grand Nord, Colonel Mak Hazukay, both forces managed to reduce ADF commanders Mzee Mussa and Djaffar, alias Muhadari, considered as key actors in the actions of this rebel group. The provinces of Ituri and North Kivu have been facing for several years the activism of these rebels, who often attack civilian populations during the night, killing people, burning houses and looting villages and hospitals.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-The Star
