UN Sends Troops to East Congo City as Army Fights Rebels
- Soldiers moved to deter any attack on city in South Kivu
- Military says thwarted rebel offensive on Lake Tanganyika
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The United Nations deployed troops to a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the national army said it fought a rebel group on nearby Lake Tanganyika.
The unspecified number of troops from the UN’s Congo mission were moved to Uvira, South Kivu province, on Wednesday after clashes in the area to “deter any attack to the city and to avoid the escalation of the conflict,” it said in a statement. Congo’s military said it’s been fighting a coalition of armed groups led by a militia known as Mai-Mai Yakutumba in the hills near Uvira and early Thursday thwarted an attempt to attack the city by boat.