DR Congo crisis talks enter day two

By Vision Reporter

Regional leaders are holding a second day of talks to agree on details of a neutral force to police the Rwanda-DR Congo border and hunt down armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Presided over by President Yoweri Museveni, the convener of the summit, the talks are also attended by presidents Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi) and Kenyan vice-president Kalonzo Musyoka.

Other leaders are Sudan vice-president Dr. El-Haj Adam Yousuf and Angola’s foreign affairs minister George Chicoti.

There are also delegations from the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Zambia.

The United Nations is represented by Abou Moussa, the special representative for Central Africa while the Africa Union (AU) is represented by the AU chairperson’s special representative to LRAaffected areas, Francisco Madeira.

The summit is organized under the auspices of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).

The attendance of Kagame and Kabila was seen as a boost to the talks as an agreement on a neutral force to police their borders and neutralise rebel groups depends mainly on them.