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French President Francoise Hollande, Expected to task President Museveni to Contribute Troops for the Peace Enforcing Mission in Central African Republic

By Fred Daka Kamwada & Agencies

As the world was mourning the king of reconciliation, Nobel peace prize winner and former South African president, Mzee Nelson Mandela, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was already in Paris, the glamorous French capital to attend the Elysee Summit for peace and security in Africa that has attracted several African Heads of States and Government.

Our sources have been privy to the details of the agenda which will include the issues to do the security situation in the Central African Republic that is threatening to get out of hand as religious factions decimate each other with reckless abandon.

The Ugandan President is an interested party in matter concerning the Central African Republic because it harbors Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony

The Central African Republic has in the recent weeks been engulfed in smoke after military factions, divided along tribal lines between Muslims on one hand and Christians fight each other.

Thousands have been displaced and hundreds killed in clashes between the two factions prompting the French government to intervene with the immediate deployment of its troops.

It’s believed that the French troops have been stretched beyond imagination because of the wide expanse of territory they are supposed to cover.

And the French Government has invited President Museveni to contribute some troops in the mission to stabilize the country.

The UPDF has for the last two Years been embedded in the jungles of the Central African Republic with the technical assistance of the Americans in the hunt for Joseph Kony.

But the Ugandan army has been very far from Bangui, the capital city and action area of the instability that is taking place at the moment.

Why CAR

The CAR could be small with handful of inhabitants but it becomes important because the Islamic fundamentalists want to use it to launch pad for terror as they tried with Mali a few months ago.

The CIA's World Fact-book says that despite its richness of natural resources, the CAR is stymied by a landlocked position, a poor transportation system, a largely unskilled work force and a legacy of misdirected macroeconomic policies.

Its per-capita GDP -- the country's economic output divided by the population -- is just $800, putting the country in 222nd place out of 228 countries.

And more than one in 25 adults are afflicted with HIV or AIDS.

Only 3.1% of the land is arable, but the country has an array of natural resources, including diamonds, gold and timber.

The CAR was submerged in war following the Seleca rebel movement that ousted former President Françoise Bozize in May this year.

Rebel leader Michael Djotodia took over the reins of power, but the calm has been short lived as rebel factions fight each other along tribal lines.

This instability forced France into drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stabilizing the Central African Republic, that had become chronically dysfunctional and in which a transitional government had failed to stop months of lawless rampaging, atrocities and dire shortages that are attracting extremist militants from neighboring states

M7 PROGRAM

According to the sources from President Museveni’s entourage, he is expected to preside over the opening and closing ceremony of the conference on security and terrorism in Africa to be held alongside Elysee Summit in Paris. 

President Museveni will also address a joint meeting of investors from France and Spain and hold several meetings of importance to Uganda's progress.

According to the Director of Cooperation of Security and Defence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, Marin Gillier, the theme "Peace and Security in Africa" reflects the main concern of the Elysee summit in view of developments of major security issues in some African countries like Mali and Central African Republic. He, however, notes that the recent crises in Mali and Central African Republic have demonstrated that the African states want to take in hand the management of crises on their continent. 

The French have expressed growing worry at the deterioration in the Central African Republic, drawing parallels to the events last year in Mali, another former French colony that led to its government’s collapse, a takeover of the northern half of Mali by Islamist militant extremists and an armed intervention by France against them early this year.

President François Hollande of France issued what he described as a “call of alarm†about the Central African Republic in his annual General Assembly speech last week. “Chaos has now taken hold there, and once again, civilians are its victims,†he said.

President Museveni is set to meet the French President during his three day working visit is expected to have a military input into the process of stabilizing the CAR.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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