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Uganda
Museveni and Paris unite against ADF by boosting security cooperation

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni with Uganda's French ambassador Jules-Armand Aniambossou and French defence attaché Bertrand de Boisse in Kampala on 12 September 2021. © @KatugaMuseveni

The Ugandan president and the country's French ambassor discussed last month the possibility of boosting their defence cooperation through the training of Uganda's mountain troops. These soldiers play an essential role in the fight against rebel groups in the east of DRC which are destabilising the region. [...]

Published on 11/01/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Uganda
Museveni and Paris unite against ADF by boosting security cooperation

Africa, Uganda
Sassou and Museveni set up African Global Security foundation to boost intelligence cooperation

DRC
France tries to get the EU to take up position in the battle against the ADF

Uganda
Museveni's anti-ADF offensive in Congo aims to reassure TotalEnergies and CNOOC

Uganda
Backed by France, Marck & Balsan to kit out UPDF mountain brigades

Uganda
Museveni determined to keep Kagame out of Lake Albert

Uganda
Museveni deploys yet more troops to protect Total's oil