[RwandaLibre] Reuters - Uganda says to begin repatriating 184,000 Congolese refugees

 

Uganda says to begin repatriating 184,000 Congolese refugees

Tue, Apr 29 10:21 AM EDT
By Elias Biryabarema

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda will begin repatriating as many as 184,000
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugees after a large number of
them asked to go home, a junior minister told Reuters on Tuesday.

Thousands, fleeing violence in eastern Congo, have streamed over the
border in the past few years, but in November, the Congolese army,
backed by UN troops, crushed the last major insurgency threatening to
return the region to all-out conflict.

Eastern Congo has been plagued by violence since 1997 when rebels
backed by Rwanda and Uganda deposed Mobutu Sese Seko. The ensuing
conflict killed millions and left hundreds of thousands as refugees in
neighboring countries.

"We expect to begin this repatriation process soon... no one will be
forced although a lot of them have willingly expressed a wish to be
returned to their country," junior minister for disaster preparedness
and refugees, Musa Ecweru, said.

Ecweru said officials from eastern Congo were in Kampala for
discussions with the Ugandan government and UN refugee agency UNHCR on
exactly when the repatriation would begin, and how the repatriation
would be effected.

Congo and the UN plan to eradicate all insurgents in the country, and
early this year they launched an offensive to defeat Ugandan Islamist
rebel group, ADF-NALU, that has been sheltering in the region's
jungles since the mid 1990s.

Ecweru said Uganda wanted to avoid the dangerous journeys that some
refugees have already made across Uganda's Lake Albert, which
straddles its border. Several boating accidents occur on the lake
every year.

(Editing by James Macharia and Louise Ireland)

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