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Uganda has made the first payment towards a $325 million bill it was ordered to pay by a UN court for invading eastern DR Congo during the Second Congo War, the Congolese government said.

International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Uganda to pay $325 million to DR Congo for invasion and looting more than 20 years ago.

The war in Syria started with a ferocious regime crackdown on nonviolent demonstrations but transformed rapidly into a hydra-headed conflict. Syrian citizens with Gulf support took up arms to defend themselves, extremists rushed in, Iran and its proxies upped the ante, and moderate and extremist opposition forces fought both with each other and regime.

The war in Syria started with a ferocious regime crackdown on nonviolent demonstrations but transformed rapidly into a hydra-headed conflict. Syrian citizens with Gulf support took up arms to defend themselves, extremists rushed in, Iran and its proxies upped the ante, and moderate and extremist opposition forces fought both with each other and regime.

Rape was so rampant during Congo Wars that the United Nations considered it as an instrument, and not a side effect of war.

The International Court of Justice previously ordered Uganda to pay reparations to DR Congo, but this is the final decision on the exact amount the country has to pay for the effects of a brutal 1998-2003 war.

The minister of Defence is yet to seek parliamentary approval on the deployment of national forces in DR Congo

To him, the wars he has fought, more pronounced from 1981 over disputed elections a year earlier, are just wars to which he was provoked

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