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Uganda will send 1,000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability, Kampala’s military said on Monday.

Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers rest next to a road after Allied Democratic Forces rebels attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 11, 2018.Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers rest next to a road after Allied Democratic Forces rebels attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 11, 2018.

Uganda will be the third country to deploy troops after contingents from Kenya and Burundi arrived in the area, Ugandan army spokesman Felix Kulayigye said, but their involvement has been opposed by some activist groups and officials because of Uganda’s role in Congo’s bloody civil wars. Eastern Congo already hosts hundreds of Ugandan troops, deployed nearly a year ago under a separate bilateral arrangement to help hunt down the Islamic State-allied group Allied Democratic Forces .

Speaking in Kinshasa after a meeting with President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday, Kenyan President William Ruto said Nairobi would honour a commitment to help stabilise eastern Congo. Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of 900 soldiers there.

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