Bunia is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Congo’s border with Uganda. Ugandan forces have been deployed to eastern Congo since 2021 under an agreement with Congo’s government.

he said. "Bunia will soon be in UPDF hands," he said in a separate post, referring to the Uganda People's Defence Force. Congo's Prime Minister Judith Suminwa told Reuters on the sidelines of an ...

At least 2,044 Congolese refugees fleeing conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have entered the ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

At the centre of Gen Muhoozi's insomnia as he claimed he was ensconced in the jungles of Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province in eastern DR Congo, was his father's political challenger Robert ...

Last month, Uganda announced its troops had "taken control" of the provincial capital, Bunia. Ituri is just north ... to a repeat of the so-called Second Congo War, which lasted from 1998 to ...

The attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) were carried out Tuesday and Wednesday in Ituri province along the border ...

The Ugandan army announced Sunday that it had deployed troops to a second town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Uganda Military Chief Threatens to Attack Eastern Congo Town of Bunia NAIROBI (Reuters) - Uganda will attack the town of Bunia in neighbouring eastern Congo unless "all forces" there surrender ...