Rwandan president opts out of DR Congo summit | |
Rwandan leader is not expected in Ugandan capital, as regional leaders meet to discuss the DR Congo crisis. Last Modified: 24 Nov 2012 14:03 | |
The UN estimate that 140,000 people in and around Goma have been displaced in recent fighting [EPA] | |
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will not attend the summit in Uganda seeking a solution to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. "Kagame is not coming," James Mugume, a senior official in the Ugandan foreign ministry, saying the president would be represented by Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo at the summit on Saturday. Mugume gave no indication as to why Kagame, whose government the United Nations accuses of backing DR Congo's M23 rebels, a claim Kigali rejects had decided not to attend. Sources in Brazzaville and Kigali said the Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso would fly into the Rwandan capital Saturday afternoon for talks with Kagame. Members of Sassou's delegation had already arrived Friday in Kigali. Meanwhile DR Congo President Joseph Kabila arrived late morning at Munyonyo resort on the outskirts of Kampala, where the summit will be held. Ugandan officials had earlier said that both Kagame and Kabila would attend and that without them the summit would be "meaningless". President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete were also in Kampala for the summit, along with host Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Mugume said. A delegation from the M23 rebels was also in Kampala, but not at the summit venue, and was expected to hold separate talks with Museveni later in the day. Kabila and Kagame met on Tuesday and Wednesday, hours after the rebels seized the regional capital of Goma, issuing a joint statement with Museveni calling for the M23 to stop its offensive and pull out of the key eastern city. The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has held multiple summits in recent months on the conflict in eastern DR Congo, but none resulted in a significant breakthrough. Refugee concerns The summit comes as the United Nations has expressed shock at the sight of thousands of civilians fleeing a rebel advance in the eastern DR Congo and appealed for access to help those caught up in the violence. Thousands of civilians are fleeing the town of Sake, which was taken over by the M23 rebels battling government troops threaten to overrun Goma. Al Jazeera's Nanazine Mosheri, reporting from Sake, said the town of Sake is currently calm. "The M23 has Sake very much firmly under their control, the aim now is to take the surrounding the areas under their control, The fact that there is no fighting today (Saturday) maybe because people are waiting for the talks in Kampala." The rebels' advance comes days after they took Goma, the biggest city in North Kivu province, and have vowed to expand their territorial control and even seize the capital, Kinshasa, although the city is 1,574km away. The fighting has sparked fears of a wider conflict erupting in the chronically unstable region, and the rebels have largely ignored calls made in a joint communique by the presidents of DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda to pull out of Goma. The UN estimate that 140,000 people in and around Goma have been displaced in recent fighting. Aid officials said the fighting has made camps for people displaced by earlier conflicts inaccessible, with food and medicines running short.
A spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in the country, known under the acronym MONUSCO, described the situation in eastern DR Congo as "alarming". "The M23 are now present in Sake, with reports indicating that they may be on the move toward Masisi territory, which is their stronghold," Kieran Dwyer said in a statement. MONUSCO has airlifted dozens of local leaders and rights activists who feared for their lives out of rebel territory, Dwyer said,The UN has an estimated 6,700 troops in North Kivu backing up government forces under a Security Council mandate to protect civilians. They have been criticised for not directly confronting the M23. The UN mission was also verifying reports of civilians wounded or killed due to the recent fighting in Goma and Sake, he added. "There are also reports of targeted killings and health personnel being abducted by the M23. Reports of recruitment and abduction of children by the group continue," he said. M23 military leader Bosco Ntaganda is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Rwanda role Meanwhile, in Kinshasa, protesters accused the rebels of abuses including the rape of pregnant women. Hundreds of women, clad in black, marched on the UN mission's headquarters, carrying banners calling for peace and criticising the country's small but militarily powerful neighbour. "No to Rwanda!" read one. The M23 fighters are widely thought to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda. The UN Security Council has expressed "concern at reports indicating that external support continues to be provided to the M23, including through troop reinforcement, tactical advice and the supply of equipment". The council did not name Rwanda whose experts have previously accused it of backing the rebels, who share the same Tutsi ethnicity with Rwandan President Paul Kagame but are Congolese. The rebellion was launched eight months ago by mutinous troops accusing the government of failing to stick to a 2009 deal with fighters to end a previous conflict. The rebels take their name - M23 - after that peace agreement which was signed on March 23, 2009. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/11/20121124101115598428.html | |
Source: Al Jazeera And Agencies | |
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Abayobozi b’uturere hamwe n’intore za FPR barakataje mu gushakisha uburyo bwose babuza abaturage kwinjira mu ishyaka FDU no gusaba abaririmo kurivamo
Abayobozi b'uturere hamwe n'intore za FPR barakataje mu gushakisha uburyo bwose babuza abaturage kwinjira mu ishyaka FDU no gusaba abaririmo kurivamo
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Minisitiri w’Itangazamakuru wa Kongo yemeza ko ingabo z’u Rwanda ari zo zagabye igitero cyafashe umujyi wa Goma
Minisitiri w'Itangazamakuru wa Kongo yemeza ko ingabo z'u Rwanda ari zo zagabye igitero cyafashe umujyi wa Goma
Andi makuru agera ku Umuvugizi yemeza ko, nubwo General Ruvusha bivugwa ko yavuye muri Kongo, atari byo kuko akiyoboye Division ya Brigade hamwe n'amabattalions agera kuri atatu, ari ku nkengero z'umupaka wa Kongo, akoresha mu kugaba ibitero bya rwihishwa bishyigikira ingabo za M23 kugirango zivune iza Leta ya Kongo (FARDC). Iyo abo basirikare barangije kurwana muri Kongo, bategekwa gusubira mu birindiro byabo biri mu Rwanda.
Mu gihe ingabo za FARDC zari zihanganye n'iza RDF, ifatanyije na M23, ingabo za FARDC zibifashijwemo na Monusco, zashoboye kwigarurira ikiraro hamwe n'umujyi wa Madenga, Kawungu, n'indi mijyi igera kuri itatu yakuwe mu maboko ya M23. Ubu twandika iyi nkuru, haravugwa ko ingabo za FARDC zongeye kwisubiza umujyi wa Sake, wari warigaruriwe n'inyeshyamba za M23.
Minisitiri Mende yanaboneyeho umwanya wo gusobanurira abanyekongo hamwe n'isi muri rusange, ko intambara ingabo za Leta ya Kongo zirimo kurwana, ntaho ihuriye na M23, ko ahubwo ingabo za FARDC zirimo kurwana n'abasirikare b'u Rwanda (RDF), iyo mirwano ikaba iyobowe na Gen James Kabarebe ubwe, ukomejye kugenda agura abasirikare ba FARDC aho babarizwa hirya no hino mu ma brigades atandukanye, kugirango bayoboke umutwe wa M23 cyangwa bafatanye n'indi mitwe y'iterabwoba ikomeje kwifatanya na M23 ndetse na RDF mu gushaka kwigarurira ibice byinshi bitandukanye by'igihugu cya Kongo, ibice bikungahaye cyane ku mabuye y'agaciro, nk'inzira yonyine yo gukomeza gusahura umutungo kamere wa Repubulika Iharanira Demukarasi ya Kongo.
Gasasira, Sweden.
-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”
-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».
-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”
-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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