Members of the CODECO (Cooperative pour le Developpement du Congo) sect from the Lendu community welcome former warlords - from the 1999-2003 Ituri War - for a meeting with local militiamen in the village of Wadda, Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on September 19, 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)