UNITED NATIONS COURT ORDERS UGANDA TO PAY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS FOR WAR DAMAGES.

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 solidadmin

A united Nations top court has ordered Uganda to pay Democratic republic of congo $325m as compensation over a brutal war two decades ago. Judge Joan Donoghue, the chief judge of the Hague-based court gave the rulling on Wednesday. The ruling comes as a blow to DR Congo after it sought a massive Eleven billion dollars as compensation over the devastating conflict that lasted from 1998 to 2003. In 2005, the ICJ ruled that Uganda had to pay reparations, but the two countries never settled on an amount and no money changed hands.
Kinshasa then claimed more than $11 billion for the occupation of its volatile northeastern Ituri region. However, in the latest ruling the judge said Kinshasa had failed to prove its African neighbor was directly responsible for any more than 15,000 of the hundreds of thousands of people believed to have died in the war.