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DRC, Uganda
Tshisekedi and Museveni struggle to agree on fight against armed groups

Kampala is reluctant to hand Kinshasa the reins of the Regional Oversignt Mechanism set up to help them fight the many armed groups active in eastern DRC. [...]

Published on 21/04/2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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