Africa's WW II: Uganda returns FARDC deserters and wants to enter DRC

Uganda returned on Wednesday more than 500 FARDC deserters who'd fled

into Uganda from the Congolese border town of Bunagana after fierce

attacks by M23 troops.





Radio Okapi and newswires report that the deserters crossed into the

Congo by the Kisindi border crossing.





Radio Okapi also quotes Congolese military in the field as saying that

Uganda allowed the deserters to cross back with their "military

equipment."





(In my view, the commanders of these men, if they happen to be among

the returnees, should be court-martialed.)





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Maybe Uganda allowed these men back into the Congo with weapons in

hand because, as Nicholas Bariyo of the Wall Street Journal reports,

"talks are under way with the Congolese government to allow Ugandan

troops to enter" DRC to hunt down Ugandan rebels of the Allied

Democratic Army (ADF) who also operate in the area seized by M23.





But Bariyo also pointedly alludes to analysts who warn "that a Ugandan

intervention could stir tensions with Rwanda, which has already been

accused of backing the M23 Congolese rebels."





Oh boy!





Are these events the harbinger of Africa's WW II?





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