With roads and trade, Uganda seeks to build a bridge over DR Congo
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni at the Mpondwe-Kasinndi border during the ground-breaking ceremony for construction of roads that will link the two countries. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR
Ugandan Peter Busomoke was possibly one of the few photojournalists to have covered every major conflict in the region in the past 30 years.
Visiting his archive on Getty Images is akin to taking a crash course on the history of conflict in the Great Lakes region over the past few decades – from Uganda’s foray into the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 1990s, to the long-running Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in northern Uganda, to Uganda’s deployment into troubled Somalia in 2007, to South Sudan’s fight for independence and, later, the young nation’s descent into fratricidal conflict beginning in 2013.
