Majority of Kampala residents want army out of DRC

An opinion poll carried out by the semi-official 'New Vision' newspaper last week revealed that 81 percent of Kampala residents want the Ugandan army to pull out of the DRC. Fifty-four percent of the respondents favoured an immediate pullout while 28 percent preferred a pullout over a six-month period with another 18 per cent saying the army should withdraw over a longer period of time, the paper reported. President Yoweri Museveni last week asked parliament to support the army's presence in Congo. He said following the Lusaka agreement, the Ugandan army had become a peacekeeping force. "Uganda is no longer isolated because with the peace agreement, Uganda is now friendly to Angola, Zimbabwe and the rest of the countries involved," he said.