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DRC-Kenya: Is Nairobi sleepwalking into a Somalia-style forever war?

By Jeff Otieno

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Posted on December 2, 2022 13:33

© Members of delegations attend the East African Community (EAC)- led Nairobi Process, the third peace talk on the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Nairobi on November 30, 2022. – Over 120 armed groups are active across the mineral-rich eastern DRC, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) — Members of delegations attend the East African Community (EAC)- led Nairobi Process, the third peace talk on the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Nairobi on November 30, 2022. – Over 120 armed groups are active across the mineral-rich eastern DRC, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Kenya’s involvement in the raging conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is causing jitters, with many nationals fearing the country risks being sucked into another unending war akin to the one in neighbouring Somalia.

On 2 November, while seeing off Kenyan troops headed to the troubled DRC, President William Ruto asked the soldiers to pause for a word of prayer.

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