Daily Monitor
Tuesday April 20 2021
Summary
DR Congo sued Uganda at the Hague-based court in 1999 over acts of armed aggression that violated the United Nations Charter and the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, the predecessor of the African Union.
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Government has assembled a team of 19 local and international experts in the proceedings on reparations in the case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Uganda’s armed activities in neighbouring DR Congo between August 1997 and June 2003.
The proceedings convened in a hybrid format with some members attending at the Hague, Netherlands, and others via video link resume today to thrash out the long-standing issue of $10 billion (about Shs36 trillion) reparations.