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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Uganda will deploy 1,000 soldiers to conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this month, as part of a regional military force, a Ugandan army officer announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

M23 rebels have seized swathes of territory in the DRC’s North Kivu province since re-emerging from dormancy in late 2021, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

In response, the seven-nation East African Community (EAC) began to deploy a military force to eastern Congo in November in a bid to stabilise the volatile region.<\/p>\n

Ugandan Colonel Mike Walaka Hyeroba said on Thursday that about 1,000 Ugandan troops would deploy in eastern DRC by the end of the month, as part of the EAC force.<\/p>\n

The troops are due to deploy to several areas of North Kivu currently occupied by the M23, he said, in a video recording shared with journalists by the provincial government.<\/p>\n

Kenyan EAC soldiers are already deployed in some areas of North Kivu, although locals increasingly view their presence with suspicion as the M23 has continued fighting.<\/p>\n

Burundian forces are also deploying to territory west of North Kivu’s capital Goma, and South Sudan announced that it would dispatch 750 troops to the region in late December.<\/p>\n

The Tutsi-led M23 took up arms again in late 2021 arguing that the Congolese government had ignored a pledge to integrate the group into the army.<\/p>\n

The rebels have since captured chunks of North Kivu and their continued advance threatens to cut off all roads to Goma, a trade hub of over one million people that lies on the Rwandan border.<\/p>\n

The DRC accuses its smaller neighbour Rwanda of backing the M23.<\/p>\n

Independent UN experts, the United States and several other Western nations have arrived at the same conclusion, although Rwanda denies the charge.<\/p>\n

Ugandan troops are already present in eastern DRC as part of a joint mission with the Congolese army to fight the Allied Democratic Forces, another militant group ravaging the region.<\/p>\n

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