Bid to 'secure' minerals sent Kenyan-led troops to DRC

KDF troops land in Goma ahead of a six-month peace keeping mission in Northern Kivu. [Patrick Vidija, Standard]

The UN Security Council authorised the deployment of a regional force, the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013 to prevent the expansion of armed groups.

The deployment was also meant to neutralise these groups, disarm them to reduce the threat they pose to state authority and civilian security, and make space for stabilisation.