UN court orders Uganda to pay DR Congo $325m as war damages
The last batch of Uganda soldiers withdrawing from DRC’s embattled Ituri region on May 19, 2003. The UN's top court on February 9, 2022 ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo USD325 million in reparations over a brutal war two decades ago.
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It must also pay $60 million for damage to natural resources, including the looting of coltan, a metallic ore used in phones and computers, and other raw materials; deforestation; and the destruction of wildlife.
