A 35-man Libyan contingent, which has been in Uganda since May this year on a peacekeeping mission for DRC, has now left the country, Presidential Press Secretary Hope Kivengere confirmed on Tuesday. She told IRIN that since the signing of the Lusaka agreement, there was no need for the Libyan team to “go it alone in the peacekeeping effort”. “They could now just be part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC,” she said. The contingent arrived in Uganda in accordance with an agreement signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and DRC President Laurent Kabila in the Libyan town of Sirte in April. A statement from State House, Kampala said the contingent had been recalled since the Sirte initiative had been “integrated” into the Lusaka accord.
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