[SIZE=7]7 killed in clashes between DR Congo, Ugandan navies: Congolese governor[/SIZE]
DR Congo naval patrol “attacked by a Ugandan patrol boat in Congolese waters”.
Four Ugandan soldiers and three civilians were killed Thursday in clashes on Lake Edward that lies between the two countries, a senior official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said.
Other clashes in the region between DR Congo forces and Ugandan rebels as well as a local militia claimed eight more lives, the army said.
A DR Congo naval patrol was “attacked this morning by a Ugandan patrol boat in Congolese waters,” Donat Kibwana, the administrator of the Beni region in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu said.
“The Ugandan boat sank and four troops and three Ugandan civilians are dead,” he said. “On the Congolese side, a soldier and a civilian have been injured.”
The clash took place near the Congolese village of Kyavinyonge on Lake Edward.
There has been no confirmation from the Ugandan side so far.
Kibwana said clashes between the forces of the two neighbouring countries had multiplied since the start of this month.
On Wednesday, a Ugandan patrol boat arrested 18 Congolese fishermen as they were casting their nets.
The Congolese navy is tasked with preventing militia fighters and local rebels and others from neighbouring Uganda and Rwanda from operating in the area.
Eastern DRC has been wracked by violence since the mid-1990s.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia — created by Muslim radicals to oppose the rule of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni — is one of a number of armed groups fighting over the region’s rich mineral resources.
On Thursday, three members of the local Mai-Mai militia were killed at Kanyihunga, about 50 kilometres north of Lake Edward after they attacked an army post, Captain Mak Hazukay, the regional army spokesman said.
Hazukay said five ADF rebels died in Mwalika in Nord Kivu in clashes with the army.
The group stands accused of killing hundreds of civilians over the years and of carrying out a deadly attack on UN troops in Beni last December that left 15 peacekeepers dead.
But specifically hawa UDF huwa wamedharau neighbors sana. Do you remember that time their first lady was visiting some border town, I think somewhere in Turkana ama west pokot. She crossed the border with a battalion, harassed villagers huko,and even our own police. Na after hio madharau yote Kenyan gava played cool. Kubebwa ufala.
Yet when they went to S. Sudan to evacuate Ugandans stranded there, they had to seek permission from the Sudanese Army…at the border…
This is why events that end in mass deaths of wananchi are never in the news for more than two nights. Whether it’s killings in Mandera or Migingo or Suguta. Road carnage, collapsing buildings, flooded streets and killer dams, cholera and other disease outbreaks, it’s a long list… They all get a passing mention then we go back to usual talk of who will be in power 2022.
On the other hand an event that threatens the political elites and their hold in the economy no-matter how minor (Miguna) or made up (Hg-Cu-Sugar) there is a massive mobilization of state power from police to regulatory agencies.
With this in mind… Migingo or Mandera does not affect 2013-2022 math. Sugar billions does.
Goma the DRC region neighboring UG kumekuwa na vita for long countless of militias and rebels both Ugandan and Congolese fighting each other over who controls the rich mineral resources
Nywele ngumu teachers are being beaten by kids in NFD. Nigerians are victimizing your sisters right here in Nairobi. Indians and Arabs are free to do as they wish (both Kenyan born and foreigners). Chinese have joined the party as well.
And of course whites are recolonizing several counties and getting parliament to write laws favorable to them in the name of “conservancy”.
Why are you catching? Explain Kenyans lethargic reactions to being shafted daily. Is it not a lack of belief in our ability to change our own situation?
My point is stop, generalizing if you and others are lethargic or have self esteem issues just say so…
You may not be aware, but Kenyans have constantly and consistently changed their political and economic circumstances, from getting rid of colonialism to removing the moi dictatorship and devising ways of surviving difficult economic situations.
