The Southern African Community (SADC) has started putting plans into action to send troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support the state forces (FARDC) in their battle against the M23 rebels.
According to a source verified by the Ugandan daily Chimp report, the SADC has begun supplying the DRC with military hardware.
In addition to these military supplies, the Champ report revealed that SADC troops will be dispatched to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week. The troops will be stationed mostly in the region of North Kivu, where the M23 rebels are engaged in combat with government forces.
This occurs concurrently with the government of President Felix Tshisekedi declaring that it is no longer in need of the East African Community Forces (EACRF), which it holds responsible for failing to combat M23 and for serving as its mediator instead.
At that same time, President Tshisekedi declared that MONUSCO forces should withdraw from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as soon as feasible. The SADC and Burundian troops are scheduled to take over the MONUSCO and EAC positions in the eastern Congo.
President Tshisekedi wants the state troops (FARDC) to work with the SADC and Burundian forces to combat the M23 rebels. This is in contrast to the EAC and MUNUSCO forces, which declined to fight this rebel group, which is primarily made up of Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese.
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