Kenya Deploys Troops To Eastern DRC To Fight Rebel Advance

 

Al Jazeera: Kenya deploys hundreds of troops to regional force in eastern DRC 

President Ruto is sending more than 900 military personnel to tackle armed groups in eastern DRC. 

Kenyan President William Ruto says his country is sending more than 900 military personnel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to join a new regional force tasked with trying to calm deadly tensions fueled by armed groups. 

Ruto on Wednesday called the mission “necessary and urgent” for regional security and said he and the DRC’s president had agreed on how Kenyan forces would work with Congolese and other forces on disarming rebels and peacekeeping in the country’s troubled east.  

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WNU Editor: Fighting between different groups has been intense in this part of eastern Congo .... Fighting in DRC's North Kivu leads to mass displacement of population (France 24). More here .... UN troops in DRC make ‘strategic withdrawal’ from key army base (Al Jazeera). 

My prediction. Kenya has not succeeded in subduing Al Shabaab in Somalia, and they will not succeed in the DRC. 

Kenya Deploys Troops To Eastern DRC To Fight Rebel Advance  

Kenya deploys hundreds to regional force in eastern Congo -- AP 

Kenya deploys troops to Congo to help end decades of bloodshed -- Reuters  

Kenya sending troops to DR Congo to fight rebel advance -- AFP  

Kenya Deploys Troops to DRC to Quell Eastern Unrest -- VOA  

Kenya to send soldiers into Democratic Republic of Congo -- DW Kenya sends troops to DRC to join regional anti-rebel operation -- RFI