🇨🇩🇷🇼 DR Congo expels Rwandan officers from regional force

The military in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it has expelled Rwandan soldiers attached to the command of the East African Community Regional Force based in the eastern town of Goma.

The Rwandan soldiers were expelled from the force “for security reasons” and “have already left Congolese soil”, the military said.

The regional force consists of soldiers from several East African countries who have joined the Congolese army, with the support of UN peacekeepers, in fighting rebel groups in eastern DR Congo.

The Congolese army claimed that Rwanda had in response recalled all its officers from DR Congo, but the authorities in Rwanda have denied the claim.

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