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US firms beef up DRC military engineering capacity

The deployment of US defence contractors to support Congolese military engineers will boost security cooperation between Washington and Kinshasa as the Chinese engineering contingent deployed within MONUSCO leaves the country. [...]

Published on 28.09.2020 at 05:00 GMT

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