[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Uganda has closed a key border crossing with Democratic Republic of the Congo...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
over claims that rebels battling Kinshasa were using it to levy taxes, a Ugandan army front man said Wednesday.
Ugandan officials shut down the Bunagana border post this week after complaints from the Congolese government that the M23 rebel group, which seized it in July, was using it to raise funds.
"The Congolese were complaining that M23 were taxing lorries and goods going through, so at the request of the government of Congo we have closed the border," said Felix Kulayigye, a Ugandan army front man.
A leaked report from a United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
group of experts has accused senior Ugandan officials of "actively" supporting the M23 rebels.
Kampala has reacted angrily to the allegation, threatening to pull out troops from international peacekeeping missions, including the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
mission in Somalia, unless they are withdrawn.