Great Lakes: DRC, Rwanda and Uganda agree on armed groups' disarmament

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda have agreed to disarm groups operating in their territories within a year as a way to pacify the region and attend to an issue that has been source of disagreements between the three countries. At a tripartite meeting held on Wednesday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and mediated by the US government, the three countries also agreed to establish a permanent commission to implement the disarmament process that was agreed upon in a 1999 agreement that was meant to end a war in the DRC as well as to address fears of neighbouring countries.