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Kazini replaced on JMC

    NAIROBI

    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has replaced Brigadier Kazini as Uganda’s representative to the Joint Military Commission (JMC), the ‘New Vision’ newspaper reported on Saturday. It said Museveni appointed his private secretary in charge of defence, Captain James Mugira, to “step in” for Kazini with immediate effect. A Ugandan military source told IRIN on Monday the move was taken so that Kazini can concentrate on the western front, where the military is conducting operations against the Ugandan rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

    Meanwhile, Uganda’s Minister of State for Regional Cooperation Amama Mbabazi on Saturday “confirmed” that government forces in the DRC had launched an offensive on rebel positions in the northwest Equateur province, the independent ‘Monitor’ newspaper reported. “It is true that these attacks took place on three fronts,” he was quoted as saying.

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