The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, two countries of the Great Lakes region, share a long border that encourages fluxes of all nature. During last years, this border limit was not revealed that a space of exchange.
On the other hand, it nourished the tensions that took the exploding shapes that raised the veil on border disputes between the two countries. In spite of will displayed by the parts to solve these conflicts peacefully, some security incidental is not stopped.
This article interrogates stakes of the persistence of these conflicts and the factors that nourish them. It uses itself, besides, to analyze the impact of these conflicts on the cooperation between the two States and propose some tracks of reflection in view of the resolution efficient of these conflicts.
April 19, 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda signed an agreement concerning commercial cooperation in the Ugandan city of Kasese. By this agreement, the two States committed to vary the exchanges of goods and services, to promote the investments in the sector of the factory and to eliminate the trade barriers.
This agreement intervenes in a context where the two countries try to turn the page of the adversarial relations that they maintained during last decades. However, the present survey interrogates the opportunities of this bilateral agreement. Besides, an attentive exam is dedicated to the obstacles that reduce the efficiency of this cooperation and to the corrective measures capable to optimize the commercial cooperation between the two States.
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