African military chiefs discuss Great Lakes security issues
DR Congo army patrol near the Rwandan border in 2014. Among the militias troubling the Kivu region are the ADF and FDLR. PHOTO | JUNIOR D. KANNAH | AFP
Senior military officers from five African Great Lakes countries met on Thursday to discuss violence which plagues part of their region, sources said.
A military official said senior officers from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda gathered in the eastern town of Goma, in DRC's North Kivu province.