Goma-the military governor to the population: “the elements of the EAC force are not our enemies”
The military governor of the province of North Kivu has urged the local population not to attack any of the contingents deployed in the east of the DR Congo as part of the regional force of the East African Community (EAC) member State. Lieutenant General Constant Ndima announced it on Wednesday in a statement. INFO SOS Médias Burundi
The press release suggests that troops deployed in the province of North Kivu went to help in the implimentation of the Accord of Luanda (Angola), Nairobi (Kenya) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Conventions the Congolese government attended to try to find a solution to the security crisis prevailing in eastern Congo, said Lieutenant Colonel Ndjike Kaiko Guillaume, spokesperson for the military governor of North Kivu.
In the statement, the provincial governor believes that attacking the contingents would amount to “falling into the enemy’s trap”.
“Thus, the Governor reaffirms that our country has agreed to the deployment of a Regional Force”.
Since November 2022, the EAC regional force deployed Kenyan and Burundian troops to Goma. Others including South Sudanese and Uganda, are also expected.
Recently, several rallies against this force were organized in the city of Goma (capital of North Kivu) at the request of pressure groups and political actors who accuse the EAC force of being “inefficient and complicit “in the same way as Monusco (Mission of the United Nations organization in the DRC).
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