Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials from Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs have held a high-profile meeting with their Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterparts to discuss means of resolving border boundary conflict along eastern Rutshuru territory and the southwestern Ugandan district of Kisoro. Ugandan officials were led by Colonel …
Read More »Mpox is infecting children in DRC – and spreading to Uganda and beyond
Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border. Munigi, DRC | Apophia Agiresaasi,Nakisanze Segawa & Noella Nyirabihogo Global Press Journal Uganda | Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for …
Read More »Kenya sends peacekeepers to DRC for stabilization efforts
NAIROBI, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya’s military said Sunday its troops have departed for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to join a United Nations peacekeeping force tasked with calming deadly tensions fuelled by armed groups. The Kenya Defense Force (KDF) said the first batch of the fourth contingent …
Read More »COMMENT: The eternal burden of ethnic hatred
COMMENT | PROF FREDDY R KANIKI | At the end of June in 1945, on a clear and unseasonably cool day in San Francisco, California, fifty nations gathered with shared hope born of a shared trauma. Representatives of these nations gathered at the San Francisco Opera House with a single …
Read More »The interests driving Uganda in the DRC
Angola peace talks renew search for solutions COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | Details about peace talks between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Aug.20 remain scanty but it has not deterred pundits from insisting that without Uganda’s issues being …
Read More »UPDF: ADF disguise as loggers in Zoka forest reserve
Adjumani, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The UPDF says some suspected fighters of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are hiding among loggers in remote parts of the Zoka Forest Reserve in Adjumani District. Fourth Infantry Division Commander Brig, Felix Busizoori says the army has identified foreign nationals from the Democratic Republic …
Read More »DRC conflict risks spreading
African leaders must push for solutions beyond military intervention ANALYSIS | ANTHONI VAN NIEUWKERK | In response to the deepening crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council established a panel of independent experts in 2023 to examine the situation and provide it with options to …
Read More »DRC accuses M23 of jamming aviation system at Goma airport
Goma, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government has accused the March 23 Movement (M23) of jamming the aviation system in the war-troubled province of North Kivu. Last week, air transport at a lower altitude from Goma International Airport in Goma City to Butembo Rughenda Airport …
Read More »Ugandan, DR Congo troops rescue another 23 abductees from ADF rebels
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Troops of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Saturday successfully rescued another 23 abductees from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in their joint military operation in the eastern DRC, a Ugandan spokesperson said. The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) and …
Read More »DR Congo unveils long-awaited new gov’t
KINSHASA, DR Congo | Xinhua | The presidential office of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) unveiled early Wednesday the composition of the new government after President Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second term in late January. The new government, led by Prime Minister Judith Tuluka Suminwa, …
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