{"id":41744,"date":"2022-12-18T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/us-outlines-strategy-to-pacify-restive-drc"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:39:50","slug":"us-outlines-strategy-to-pacify-restive-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/us-outlines-strategy-to-pacify-restive-drc","title":{"rendered":"US outlines strategy to pacify restive DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Biden administration used this week\u2019s US-Africa Leaders Summit here in Washington DC to signal its support for a regional-led solution to the longstanding conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n

As the summit was raging on, the M23 rebels revealed last Thursday that an uneasy truce had fallen through following resumption of fighting in Bwiza, North Kivu. The rebels alleged that the Congolese army (FARDC) attacked their positions.<\/p>\n

At a media briefing convened at the end of the Summit, United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told journalists that while \u201c the State Department has been deeply engaged … [in] try[ing] to help solve these challenges\u201d, regional-led solutions were \u201cmore sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cpartnerships are more vital than ever\u201d, with the US pushing parties specific to the matter to deliver on the mandates as charged.<\/p>\n

\u201c… We are looking to Rwanda to use its influence with M23 to encourage that and to move that forward,\u201d Secretary Blinken said, adding that the \u201cmilitarised nongovernmental group[s]\u201d that need \u201cto stand down\u201d include the Democratic Forces for Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which Kigali alleges Kinshasa bankrolls.<\/p>\n

The reported resumption of fighting in North Kivu follows accusations by Kinshasa that the M23 rebels reneged on one of the decisions of the Luanda mini summit that the latter withdraw\u2014without conditions\u2014from conquered positions.<\/p>\n

Secretary Blinken described the \u201cagreement in Luanda, where all sides made commitments to, in effect, pull back and de-escalate the situation\u201d as \u201can important agreement\u201d that \u201coffers tremendous promise for ending the current conflict and hopefully leading to more durable stability in the eastern DRC.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Museveni told this newspaper that he is looking to the US for support to enhance \u201csecurity cooperation\u201d across the restive Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we talk of security … within Uganda, we don\u2019t need anybody to help us because we have the capacity. The only area where we need cooperation is beyond the borders where we don\u2019t have authority. That is where we need cooperation and we have been able to make our own contribution there,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs minister Gen Jeje Odongo, who accompanied President Museveni to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, told Sunday Monitor that several parties had been beckoned to help moot and implement remedies to de-escalate insurgency in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had discussions with the US officials, but we have also had discussions among the leaders in the region in as far as the security situation in the Great Lakes region in particular is concerned,\u201d Gen Odongo said, adding: \u201cIn our conversations, particularly with the US officials, they have indicated that they would be taking a leaf from the leadership that Uganda provides in the region in this aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gen Odongo further revealed that while Kampala \u201cdidn\u2019t specifically look at the specifics of strategies\u201d in discussions with the Biden administration, \u201cwe have a very clear understanding of the manner in which the Americans operate. They operate at bilateral level, rather than at regional level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden says<\/p>\n

In an address delivered to more than 40 Heads of State from Africa on Wednesday, President Biden held that elimination of conflict and restoration of peace in war-torn areas was core to the growth of the African continent. He added that \u201cAfrica\u2019s economic transition depends on good government, healthy populations, and reliable and affordable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Biden, serving his first term of office, on Tuesday pledged $55 billion to support various economic initiatives on the African continent.<\/p>\n

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