Militiamen of the armed group URDPC/CODECO (Union des Revolutionnaires pour la Defense du Peuple Congolais/Cooperative pour le Developpement du Congo) from the Lendu community take part in a meeting with former warlords - from the 1999-2003 Ituri War - in the village of Masumbuko, Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on September 18, 2020. - Since April 2020, Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, has mandated former warlords, including Germain Katanga convicted by the International Criminal court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity, to negotiate the surrender of armed groups in Ituri. Since the end of 2017, the conflict in Ituri has resulted in more than 1.5 million displaced persons and several hundred deaths, mostly attributed to assailants from the Lendu community. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)