Burundi sends troops to DRC for regional peacekeeping force
2 years, 4 months ago

Burundi sends troops to DRC for regional peacekeeping force

Al Jazeera  

There are more than 120 armed groups active in the DRC, driving longstanding conflict in the country. The deployment was confirmed by a DRC army spokesman, Lieutenant Marc Elongo, who said the mandate is to track down “all foreign and local armed groups in order to restore peace” in the mineral-rich region bordering Rwanda and Uganda where dozens of rebel groups operate. Tensions between the DRC and Rwanda, which the former has accused of supporting the recently resurgent M23 rebel group, in part led to the East African Community creating the regional force earlier this year. Carina Tertsakian who is the Burundian Human Rights Initiative told the AP that the soldiers might pursue another rebel group, RED Tabara, that has been accused of carrying out attacks inside Burundi. “It is no surprise that Burundi is the first country to offer troops,” Tertsakian said, asserting that hundreds of Burundian forces already had been quietly deployed in the DRC for several months on that mission.

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