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France tries to get the EU to take up position in the battle against the ADF

France is trying to come up with an EU-wide policy on the battle being fought by Uganda and the DRC against rebel Islamist group the Allied Democratic Forces. [...]

Published on 07.02.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes Olivier Liffran

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DRC
African Union
Allied Democratic Forces
Armed Forces of the DRC
European External Action Service
European Union
Patrick Pouyanne
Paul Kagame
TotalEnergies
Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces
Yoweri Museveni

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DRC, Uganda
Museveni schmoozes Tshisekedi to avoid paying $325m war damages

The International Court of Justice ruling that Uganda must pay hefty war damages to the DRC comes as relations between the two countries are on the mend. Kampala is on a charm offensive towards its neighbour in the hope of an amicable settlement.

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Burundi, DRC
How the Burundian army is hunting down rebels in Congolese territory on the quiet

Gitega has deployed hundreds of soldiers in neighbouring DRC's South Kivu province to track down Red-Tabara, a rebel group with Burundian roots. Unlike Uganda's operations against the Allied Democratic Forces further north, which Kinshasa okayed, this operation is taking place in great secrecy.

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Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi to finally take helm of regional security body set up to fight rebel groups

DRC President Félix Tshisekedi was caught off guard by Uganda's moves - including on Congolese territory - against rebel forces proliferating in the Great Lakes region. He will seek to regain the initiative when next month he takes over the presidency of a regional security cooperation alliance.

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Spotlight | Mozambique, Rwanda
Pouyanné and Kagame's diplomatic dance to restart Cabo Delgado LNG

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné is preparing a trip to Mozambique and Rwanda to oversee his group's return to the troubled province of Cabo Delgado to restart the giant Mozambique LNG project.

Subscribers only Energy 24.01.2022

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné (left) and Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Uganda
Museveni and Paris unite against ADF by boosting security cooperation

The Ugandan president and the country's French ambassor discussed last month the possibility of boosting their defence cooperation through the training of Uganda's mountain troops. These soldiers play an essential role in the fight against rebel groups in the east of DRC which are destabilising the region.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 11.01.2022

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni with Uganda's French ambassador Jules-Armand Aniambossou and French defence attaché Bertrand de Boisse in Kampala on 12 September 2021.

Uganda
Museveni's anti-ADF offensive in Congo aims to reassure TotalEnergies and CNOOC

The deployment of Ugandan troops in eastern DRC is primarily aimed at reassuring investors in Uganda such as oil companies CNOOC and TotalEnergies.

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DRC
French delegation set to talk defence and security in Kinshasa

A delegation of French parliamentarians led by MP Françoise Dumas, chairwoman of the Assembly's defence committee, is expected in Kinshasa in early Dec.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 30.11.2021

Uganda
After bomb attacks, Museveni reviews his strategy to counter ADF

Following the bomb attacks in Kampala on 16 November, Uganda's leading partners have approached the government to offer their assistance, including China.

Subscribers only Politics 26.11.2021

Spotlight | Great lakes
Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [.

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DRC
France tries to get the EU to take up position in the battle against the ADF

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France's new foreign affairs chief reshuffles ambassadors

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Museveni schmoozes Tshisekedi to avoid paying $325m war damages

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How the Burundian army is hunting down rebels in Congolese territory on the quiet

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Tshisekedi to finally take helm of regional security body set up to fight rebel groups

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Pouyanné and Kagame's diplomatic dance to restart Cabo Delgado LNG

Uganda
Museveni and Paris unite against ADF by boosting security cooperation

Uganda
Museveni's anti-ADF offensive in Congo aims to reassure TotalEnergies and CNOOC

DRC
French delegation set to talk defence and security in Kinshasa

Uganda
After bomb attacks, Museveni reviews his strategy to counter ADF

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