Kenya deployed troops on Wednesday to the Democratic Republic of Congo to battle the March 23 Motion (M23) rebels within the nation’s troubled east in a joint operation by a regional bloc, President William Ruto introduced.
The Kenyan troopers will make up a part of the East African Neighborhood (EAC) power, an assemblage of army models from the area that’s serving to the Congolese military’s efforts to quell the perennial violence within the area.
The EAC is a regional bloc of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and DR Congo.
Some Kenyan models beforehand arrived within the DR Congo in September to assist set up logistical help methods in preparations for deliberate operations in opposition to the M23 insurgent group.
The Kenyan contingent’s first mission might be to assist recapture the border metropolis of Bunagana which was seized by M23 in June this yr.
