DR Congo president Joseph Kabila arrived at Entebbe Airport Saturday morning. PHOTO/Peter Busomoke
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Chaos by Design: When aggressors become mediators: When wolves pretend to be sheep: The US supports Museveni Congo mediation: M23 rebels capture Goma as the UN looks on: Kabila and Kagame fly to Kampala for talks
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/11/chaos-by-design-when-aggressors-become.html
UN+UN peace keeping in Congo =American New World Order: UN security council condemns Goma takeover by M23 rebels: Rebels accused of gross human rights violations: DR soldiers surrender to M23 rebels
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/11/unun-peace-keeping-in-congo-american.html
Bishop Jean Marie Runiga, Becomes a spokes person for the M23: Using Confusion, misinformation and disinformation to Hide the Central role of USA, her allies and client states in the Conflict in the ‘Democratic’ republic of Congo(DRC)
Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga the spokes person of M23 rebels admits visiting Kampala but says they will not leave Goma
Great Lakes leaders arrive for Congo crisis
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Publish Date: Nov 24, 2012
Entebbe – Leaders of the Great Lakes region are jetting into Uganda ahead of the 5th Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) as the heads-of-state seek solutions to end the crisis in Congo.
Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila touched down at Entebbe Airport on Saturday moments before Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete’s arrival.
Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki is also in Kampala for the meet. But it is reported that Rwandan president Paul Kagame will not attend the summit.
Other ICGLR leaders are also expected in the country for a meet that is expected to be held at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala.
The current security situation in DR Congo is expected to be top-of-agenda in a meet that comes only three months after a similar one was convened early August to discuss the crisis in President Kabila’s country.
The political leader of M23 – the rebel group that captured Goma, a key city near Sake – flew into Uganda on Thursday for talks with Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni.
The leaders are expected to reach an agreement with the rebels that should realize calm in a country where residents, especially in the rebel-captured town of Goma, are living in fear and are battling with shortage of basic necessities.
Over 100,000 people are fleeing the violence in eastern Congo, a half of whom are children, according to the UN children's agency.
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki arrives for the summit in Kampala on Saturday. PHOTO/Eddie Ssejjoba
Presidents Museveni (Uganda), Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Kabila (DR Congo) held a series of closed-door talks mid this week to discuss the crisis and called on the fighters to give up the territory they now control.
But the adamant group vowed not to give in to the demands, threatening to press forward toward seizing the strategic eastern town of Bukavu, which would mark the biggest gain in rebel territory in nearly a decade if it were to fall.
The country’s president said he was willing to talk to the rebel representatives in a move that would inspire an end to the fighting in the country.
