New EU support to increase security in the Central African region

EU News 134/2014

Brussels, 27 March 2014
IP/14/322

Today, the EU announced that it would provide close to €2 million to support the fight to eliminate the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a militant movement in the Central African region. The new contribution will support the “Regional Cooperation Initiative for the elimination of the Lord's Resistance Army” (RCI-LRA), led by the African Union, in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, for a period of 17 months. It will cover, among other things, staff allowances, communication equipment and operational costs of this initiative.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-322_en.htm?locale=en

File Photo: Visit of Andris Piebalgs, Member of the EC, to the Central African Republic. Date: 14/03/2014 Reference: P-025119/00-41 Location: Bangui (C)EU, 2014 URL

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