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DRC: The Stick and the carrots
By African Bulletin on March 12, 2010
Officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched a “firearm for $50” disarmament campaign in the eastern region. They expect to collect about “20 000 to 30 000 guns at first” but did not say how long the operation, financed by President Joseph Kabila, was intended to last.
The purpose is to bring serenity and calm in the eastern region bordering Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, which was “at the heart of a war that sowed death and desolation”, and where several armed groups, Congolese militias and Rwandan Hutu rebels have operated for more than a decade.
Recently, the region has lived a vast Army operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels, backed by the UN peacekeepers.