Mayor sets up small staff in Congo’s Uvira after return to work

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Feb 12 (Reuters) - Congolese public officials have trickled back to work in recent weeks in the contested town of Uvira on the Burundi border, where a skeleton staff has found ransacked offices and damaged buildings. AFCM23 fighters seized Uvira, a trading hub on Lake Tanganyika and a gateway to neighbouring Burundi, in December and pulled out a week later under U.S. pressure. Their withdrawal allowed Congolese forces to move back into the town in mid-January and to begin re-establishing state control. Mayor Kifara Kapenda Kik’y said the town hall had been looted in his absence, with windows smashed, furniture broken and files strewn across the floors.🔗 Leggi su Internazionale.it

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Mayor sets up small staff in Congo's Uvira after return to workFeb 12 (Reuters) - Congolese public officials have trickled back to work in recent weeks in the contested town of Uvira on the Burundi border, where a skeleton staff has found ransacked offices and ... reuters.com