Washington, under the specious pretext of helping Uganda, directly intervened in the affairs of Equatorial Africa
According to data officially confirmed by representatives of the Ugandan Ministry of Defense, a detachment of special forces soldiers of the US Army crossed the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo in October of this year to assist the Ugandan troops in their fight against partisans from the Lord’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). northwestern region of this country.
According to the assurances of the Deputy Head of the Defense Ministry of Uganda, General Haji Gigi Otono, the US military does not directly participate in combat operations. Their main task is called coordination of military units and aerial and radio intelligence. In addition, as part of the agreement concluded by the governments of both countries, US instructors conduct training for Ugandan special forces at a military base near the country's capital, Kampala.
It remains unclear how the prosecution of the Army of God forces forced the American military to cross the Congo border, since the main forces of the partisan movement are based quite far in the settlements of the Acholi and Lang tribes located in northern Uganda and the border areas of South Sudan, which recently declared its independence.
As Irina Filatova, a professor at Natal University, noted, the paradox of the whole situation is that Christian fundamentalists, who are in charge of the “Army of God,” whose plans are to create a theocracy, receive tremendous financial support from Muslim fundamentalists from Northern Sudan. She also noted the fact that this Muslim-Christian alliance was especially strengthened after oil deposits were discovered in South Sudan and there were clear signs of deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in its eastern part. It is in these areas that the Army of God, which plans to create its state, will be headed by the bishops, who will use the ten commandments as the main law.
Congo is now on the verge of a civil war, after last week’s parliamentary and presidential elections. Apparently this made the United States put Congo at the top of its priorities in this region of Africa. Active negotiations between the current president, Joseph Kabilda, and Etienne Tshisekedi, the opposition leader, who refused to recognize the election results and insists on a recount, are currently taking place in the republic.
For the coming weekend, the opposition has planned numerous protests in Kinshasa. In the light of possible bloodshed, residents of the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo can swim and wade across the frontier Congo River to reach the currently safe city of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
Taking advantage of the fact that at the moment all the military units of the DRC are being pulled to the capital, the Americans made another attempt to consolidate in Equatorial Africa, in areas that were historically almost not controlled by the Kinshasa army, remaining a shelter for all sorts of semi-bandit guerrilla units such as the Army of God. For Americans, this was the first opportunity after the defeat of Somalia in the 1993 year.
The “no-man’s” territory on the border of the three countries: Uganda, South Sudan and Congo, may well become a springboard for the United States, with the help of which they will further try to gain control over the entire region. However, one should take into account the fact that, for the most part, the borders of the countries here are “artificial”, inherited from the colonial past, which did not take into account the tribal structure of the local population. And American troops risk being in the center of a large-scale bloody geopolitical redistribution, the outcome of which is unpredictable.
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