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Uganda Kampala - The United States has resumed military aid to Uganda after a four-year suspension over the government's deployment of troops in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the US embassy said on Monday. "We have resumed assistance following American President George Bush's meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and following the pullout of the Ugandan troops from the DRC," embassy spokesperson Michael Gonzalez told. Bush met his Ugandan counterpart during a visit to Uganda in July. Uganda and Rwanda sent troops into the DRC in 1998 to fight alongside rebel forces then bent on ousting the government in Kinshasa but agreed to withdraw under the terms of a peace agreement. Kampala announced in April that it had withdrawn its troops from the DRC. Rwanda officially announced its military withdrawal from the DRC a year ago in exchange for the Ugandan government's pledges to disarm and repatriate extremist Rwandan Hutu groups and former Rwandan soldiers who fled to the DRC after Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Washington's decision to resume military assistance to Uganda is aimed at improving the East African country's military capacity through training, Gonzalez said. - Sapa-AFP Published on the Web by IOL on 2003-10-27 16:42:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- � Independent Online 2002. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.
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