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The DRC and Uganda: Even More Confusion
Delegation to Rwanda and other concerns Developing Story: AFRICOM Team to Assess Situation in the DRC!!! New Concerns About Nigeria The Visit by the SECSTATE The Sudan Hearings What to Do With Somalia? How It Ends!! Two Amendments that were Suprising Reason For Optimism Two other Problem Spots Some Other News That You Might Be Interested In..... A Nigerian Trial in New York New Legislation and the Return of an Old Argument A Briefing in Farmville and A Call for Washington The More Things Change........ General Ward Visits Africa The Paradox Known as Zimbabwe Saving Captain Phillips Next Stop For APS: Cameroon Restoration of Badly Needed Funds Restoration of Badly Needed Funds US Air Force: No Plans for No Fly Zone over Darfur Yet.......... A New Undersecretary of State for Africa is nominated. Operation Objective Voice Another Movement Organizes in the United States Enter the Boxer Rising Tensions and Hopes for Peace A Good Day in Danville,Virginia Report: AFRICOM helped plan Operation Lightning Thunder An Envoy is Needed in Darfur Right Away The First Strategies of the Administration The African Policy of President Obama A Policy Reccomendation that Makes Sense Darfur and Piracy Report: US Special Envoy to Sudan Asked for Military Force A New Policy For the Horn? Outgoing and Incoming Epidemic = Endgame? Updating Somali Disappearance Story Problems Beyond Somalia and Zimbabwe Africa Partnership Station 09 Report: Somalis Missing from Minneapolis MARFORAF is Now Formed Ospreys Over Africa What will President Obama Do for Africa? Breaking News: Secretary Frazier Goes to Kinshasa !!! US Envoy: More Peacekeepers for Darfur by the End of The YEAR!!! Concern over Women Should Extend Further than the DRC Why is the US Silent Regarding the DRC? The US and Malawi The US Relationship With Malawi AFRICOM No Missions in Somalia but Trains Cameroonian and EG Soldiers New African Advocacy Group Launches in USA What will McCain and Obama do for Africa? General Nkunda Angers Washington What Will McCain and Obama do for Africa? A New Strategy towards Angola? Of Pirates and Despots that Washington has to deal with..... The State Department Religious Freedom Report 08 Developing Story: US to Increase Aid to Somaliland West Africa: Forgotten Front in the War on Drugs? A "Crucial Window of Opportunity" Somali Protests at the Republican National Committee Why Passing H Res 765 is an excellent Idea What is the Status of IVAW? IVAW Where is the Congress on This? Feds End Refugee Program Due to Fraud How Much will the DOD and STATE Spend in Africa the Next Fiscal Year? Small Arms in Africa Breaking News: US to Extend TPS to Sudan!!!!!!!! Senator Durbin Speaks Up in Support of Press Freedom!!! We Abstain US Increases Sanctions Against Zimbabwe Tyrants v Rule of Law Active Month for the US at the UN Zim Campaign begins with a new threat against the US Ambassador Why H Res. 1227 is a Great Idea Another Secession Movement Approaches Washington Other Areas that the US should be concerned about US Aims to stop Chinese Arms from reaching Zimbabwe... Finally! Hypocrisy over Child Soldiers? Americans Held in Zimbabwe and Presidential Runoff Created Congo Lobby Day in Washington State Department Report on Human Rights has been released Islamists on the March in Somalia? Kenyans Angry with Hillary Clinton A Tale of Two Peaces MEND asks for US Mediation: Should the Administration do it? Will Somaliland Independence Bill Get Any Support on Capitol Hill? President Bush: Africa Has been a Priority New African Legislation being Discussed in Washington Child Soldiers being used by US Allies???? President Bush to ignore Key Allies in African Trip Terrorists Moving Around West Africa At will? US and Europe Criticized over Zimbabwe Again..... This is not a recording US to recgonize Somaliland??? US Military Trains Ugandans in Somalia and in Uganda !!!!!! Election Results leave Kenya in Turmoil!!!! Has Congress Dropped the Ball for Africa Also??? New Era in US-Nigerian Relations?? Gambia: Is this a Crisis Under the Radar?? Rally for Southern Cameroon in New York A New Turn in US-Zimbabwe Relations? Drug War going to West Africa? Is Ethiopia Jamming the VOA? Africa, The US and Iran: Could a US Strike provoke a War? Darfur: Can the US Save the UN Mission? US to support Nigerian Efforts in the Delta Rally for HR 2003 in Oklahoma!!! Central Africa Ethiopia & Eritrea Tensions could this become a US Proxy War? Assault on the Zimbabwean Church? AFRICOM what is its real Mission? Contact the Eagle Article Page Contact Me Archives

Both Countries are Considered to Be Allies of this Administration. There are underlying tensions between both countries. Causes of the Tensions include Militias, Refugees and even Oil!!!

Part I The DRC

Ever since the days of the Mobuto Regime the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex-Zaire) has been an ally of the United States. From assisting UNITA forces in Angola to supporting key covert operations Mobuto Sese Seko was a good friend to several Administrations.

After his death the Congo imploded. Some of the violence was a spill over of the tragic fighting in Rwanda which saw Millions of People perish with a span of only 30 days. When the fighting in the Congo began it lasted for over four years and involved six other African States. Some of the Legacies of the fighting include untold number of women raped as a Weapon, Natural Resources Looted and a decrease in the Gorilla Population in the East.

Part II Uganda



Uganda has its own plethora of problems at this juncture. An Insurgency has plagued the Northern Part of the Country for 20 years now. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) the force conducting the rebellion has in the past replenished its ranks by raiding Internal Displacement Camps (IDP Camps) and kidnapping Children. Also Ugandan Troops were the first forces on the ground in Somalia to be part of the African Union Peacekeeping Force that will assist the Transitional National Government in reestablishing a Centralized Government.



Recently the Leaders of both Nations were in Washington. Joseph Kabila represented the Democratic Republic of the Congo. President Yoweri Museveni represented Uganda. And both had received diametrically different reactions from the White House.



Part III The United States and the Future

As stated above both Presidents received different reactions from President Bush. President Museveni received gratitude for his Nation's Support for the Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia. And the US is supporting the Peace Talks efforts in Juba, Sudan. But President Kabila received pressure to increase the Security Situation in the Eastern Part of the Country. There have been several offensives in the Kivu Provinces to root out Militias from both Rwanda and Uganda that have used the rugged terrain as a base of Operations.

Furthermore there has been a recent increase in the Exploration of Oil in the Lake Albert Region. According to Press Reports from the Region there was at least one border class between Ugandan and DRC Forces. There are now reports of Cholera in the Region.

There have been several investigations in the region that deserve answers. They are:

1.) Where is the Second in Command of the LRA Vincent Otti? there are reports that he has died or is seriously ill. with the recent rain and reports of Cholera his death is a possiblity.

2.)In June the CIA launched an Investigation to determine whether or not a Militia had contacts with the Ugandan Opposition. What is the status of that Investigation?

3.)We know that there are several concerted efforts by the International Community to assist the Children of Northern Uganda to reenter society. When will a similar effort be made to assist the countless number of Rape Victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? they need the aid just as much as the Children do. And Why is the World so silent over the issue?


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