DR CONGO: Uganda deploys troops against M23

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Uganda’s army on Tuesday said it had deployed troops in the town of Bunia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to fight local militias.
The move came as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has been seizing territory further south in the neighbouring North and South Kivu provinces.
“We have deployed our troops in Bunia,” Ugandan military spokesman Felix Kulayigye told AFP.
“There were massacres being committed by some militia groups and we agreed with our Congolese counterparts to carry out joint operations to save lives.”
Bunia is the capital of Ituri province, where Uganda already had thousands of troops, working primarily alongside DRC forces against an Islamist group, the Allied Democratic Forces, that has been linked to the Islamic State group.