The caucus of traditional leaders and civil society actors of Ituri pleaded, on Thursday, November 28, for the demarcation of borders and the reinforcement of military personnel in the territories of Aru, Mahagi and Irumu, bordering Uganda.
They made this plea during a meeting organized in Bunia (Ituri).
These customary authorities and civil society activists were able to observe that this porosity of the borders is at the root of cases of invasions of Congolese entities by foreign forces, followed by exactions against inhabitants of this border region.
These traditional leaders mentioned the cases of the occupation for three years of the village of Urio, Mahagi territory, by Ugandan soldiers.
" Let this demarcation be done so that we find a peaceful solution between the DRC and Uganda because they also take advantage of this non-demarcation to invade our villages. We hope that the Government can take this matter seriously so that our neighbors cannot occupy our spaces ," said the spokesperson of this meeting, Kataloho Takumara.
The latter claim that this locality belongs to the DRC.
There are also the islets of Rukwanzi and Muchanga on Lake Albert in the Irumu territory, whose inhabitants are each time threatened with eviction by Ugandan services who claim that these villages are in Uganda.
Congolese fishermen are often arrested or robbed of their fishing equipment and fish. In Aru, several cases of border violations are reported in the chiefdoms of Kakwa and Kaliko Omi.
These concerns were also raised by political actors and members of civil society during the Prime Minister's delegation visiting Bunia last week.
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