The UN Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) will not support the joint Uganda-DR Congo operations against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels.
MONUSCO public relations officer Mathias Gillman said their mandate limits them from supporting the coalition force in eastern DR Congo.Mr Gillman, while responding to a journalist’s question on the implication of the deployment of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in eastern DRC, said: “Our mandate allows us to support the Congolese army in its operations. Our mandate does not allow us to support a regional coalition.”
“But it doesn’t mean we cannot do anything; it simply means that our efforts should be coordinated for eventualities,” Mr Gillman said yesterday during a press briefing in Kinshasa, the capital city of DR Congo.
MONUSCO has 14,000 troops to counter the ADF rebels in eastern DRC.
On Tuesday, the UPDF carried out air and artillery strikes on rebel positions.
Uganda accuses the rebel group of bombings in Kampala City that left seven people dead and tens injured and on a bus on Kampala-Masaka road. The rebel group is also accused of killing a total of 147 people in 30 separate bomb terror attacks between July 2001 and January 2021.
Courtesy of Daily Monitor(monitor.co.ug)
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