ICC inductee wanting a seat in Congo DRC mediation what a joke!?

ICC inductee wanting a seat in Congo DRC mediation what a joke!?

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Kenya gets seat on DRC peace mediation tableBy AGGREY MUTAMBO
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Thursday, August 1 2013 at 15:14

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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) walks with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (centre) and Central African Republic leader Michel Djotodia during the summit of the Heads of State of the International Conference of the Great Lakes region (ICHGLR) in Nairobi, July 31st, 2013. NATION MEDIA GROUP​

Kenya has waded into the murky waters of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by requesting to be included in a UN-mediated agreement meant to stop the cycle of violence in that country.

At a special summit in Nairobi on Wednesday, leaders from member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) accepted Kenya's formal request to be part of the peace deal after President Uhuru Kenyatta successfully argued that Kenya had been affected by the violence in eastern Congo.

"We, the heads of state and government of ICGLR have decided to request the United Nations to consider including the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of Sudan to the Framework for Peace and Security for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the region," read part of the declaration released on Wednesday night.

President Kenyatta had told the leaders earlier that the security situation of the region and DRC in particular required the participation of all countries including Kenya. Addressing the opening session of the summit, Mr Kenyatta argued that the incessant conflict had drained the economic power of countries that are stable, such as Kenya.

"The security situation within and among a number of member states is a critical issue because of its impact on regional stability, which in turn inflicts, or threatens to inflict undesirable effects on our peoples' social and economic development," he said.

"Kenya is deeply concerned about the fresh outbreak of violence in North Kivu, which has initiated a fresh cycle of humanitarian crisis in the region."
President Kenyatta later invoked Kenya's history of "protecting African lives" through peace talks and peacekeeping missions in Mozambique, Sudan, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Liberia as the reason Kenya should be part of the process to seek solutions to the DRC imbroglio.

The UN-mediated agreement was signed early this year in February in Addis Ababa to seek an end to the continual cycle of violence in eastern Congo. However, Kenya and Sudan were not part of the deal.

Business market

Kenya is determined to help resolve the conflict because it considers DRC as a suitable market to do business with. But this conflict is surrounded by intrigues. Kinshasa and the UN accuse Rwanda and Uganda of fuelling the clashes by sponsoring rebels, a charge both countries deny.

Congolese Foreign Affairs Minister Raymond N'tungamulongo told the summit the causes of the violence in eastern Congo were both "internal and external" in a calculated jab at both Rwanda and Uganda.

"DRC has been the main victim, not the perpetrator of the conflict. The fact that the violence is mainly in eastern Congo shows the conflict has both internal and external causes," he said.

President Yoweri Museveni,who chaired the summit, accused DRC of lamenting over foreign interference instead of protecting its citizens. He comically stated that part of the reasons DRC is at civil was because it had a weak military force that could not protect its citizens, a weakness he said was started by former president Mobutu Sese Seko.

"DRC has a duty to protect its citizens, but it has no effective army. If DRC feels the rebels are from Rwanda, kill them and bring the bodies so that we can see them."

Last December, Uganda hosted talks between Kinshasa government and M23 rebels, but the talks did not lead to a peace deal after some delegates walked out.
Museveni charged that the UN Mission in Congo (Monusco) has been ineffective and has been in "peaceful coexistence with terrorists."

The M23 rebels and several other armed groups active in the eastern Congo are fighting for control of the region's natural and mineral resources such as timber and gold.

The leaders called on Kinshasa and M23 to finalise their talks as soon as possible. Kenya's request now means the country would be given a major role in the conflict, if the international community agrees.

The Great Lakes Special Summit also agreed on a peace framework to bring to an end the conflicts in the Central African Republic, Sudan and South Sudan.

Kenya gets seat on DRC peace mediation table: News-africareview.com

MY TAKE
Pretty sure the UN Council will boot that Uhuruto day dreaming...
 
Great lakes!
Baba Mwana asha hakuwamo?
 
Sigma said:
Great lakes!
Baba Mwana asha hakuwamo?
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hana muda wa kujumuika na wanafki! Alituma VP kwenda huko...Yeye anayapanga majeshi yake tayari ku-strike baada ya yale masaa 48! Kwanza Kenya irudishe dhahabu ya Congo iliyotoroshwa JKIA mwaka jana!
 
How kenya will be affected, it seems are among who benefit in the land of drc,the meetings has been sat with no sulution, i wonder?KENYA SHOULD MAKE SURE SOMALI PEOPLE ARE SAFE
 
“DRC has a duty to protect its citizens, but
it has no effective army. If DRC feels the
rebels are from Rwanda, kill them and
bring the bodies so that we can see them.”


kauli hii some one explain
 
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Kenyatta ... put your house in order first!
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There's more than meets the eye in this DRC issue...the blind are already believing the propaganda by the west about Kagame one must ask themselves why that tiny country called Rwanda is said to be involved with the giant DRC??? Why is it that DRC doesn't directly benefit from its resources? Who gets the money? The renewed interest in East Africa is not just a coincidence. This region might be the next middle east
 
[h=2]Uhuru kenyatta nacheza ngoma asioijua kwa tanzania ; mgogoro wa drc[/h]



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President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged a political solution to the security crisis in eastern DRC. Net photo.
The United Nations’ interventions in eastern DR Congo should “strengthen rather than complicate and overlap” peace efforts initiated by the Great Lakes region, Kenya’s president said yesterday.
Uhuru Kenyatta was speaking at the opening of the sixth extraordinary summit of Heads of State and Government from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), a bloc of 12 countries spearheading a homegrown peace bid for DR Congo, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
He was referring to recent UN-spearheaded initiatives including the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for DR Congo and the region, signed in February by eleven regional countries and four guarantors, and the ongoing deployment of a 3000-strong force with a more assertive mandate within the UN mission in the Congo, Monusco, the world’s largest and most expensive UN operation.
The Kenya stance
“We hope that it (the Framework) will avail an additional avenue in the search for lasting peace in the region. Kenya, however, advises that this additional framework and its initiatives complement and strengthen, rather that complicate and overlap ICGLR initiatives,” Uhuru said.
“I find it important to make this point because we urgently need all hands on deck, for effective deployment to avoid wastage of much needed initiatives and resources through duplication.”
He said to enable member states own conflict resolution and peace-building efforts in the region, Kenya believes that ICGLR’s regional initiatives require regional full support.
The Kenyan leader said his country welcomed recommendations by the ICGLR’s ministers of defence and foreign affairs as well as chiefs of intelligence during an earlier technical meeting, which included a call for the establishment of the Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre as part of efforts to achieve peace in the Great Lakes region.
The centre would help spearhead expeditious implementation of the ICGLR Protocol on Non-Aggression and Mutual Defence, he said, urging member countries to support the initiative.
Kenya supports the focus on seeking political solutions to security problems in the region and deeply appreciates the efforts made by the Heads of State and Governments of the ICGLR, Uhuru added.
Over the past year the regional bloc, under its current chairperson, President Museveni of Uganda, has held several high-level meetings and came up with initiatives, including the now-stalled Kampala peace talks between the Congolese government and the M23 rebels, to help return peace to the perpetually restive eastern DR Congo.
Stalled talks
However, while Ugandan mediators say progress had been made in the early stages of the peace talks, recent developments on the ground have thrown the negotiations into uncertainty.
Speaking from Nairobi, President Museveni, who chaired the meeting, also attended by the President of Central African Republic Michel Am-Nondokro Djotodia, and the UN special envoy to the Great Lakes region, Mary Robinson, urged support for the talks, which he said had potential to help deliver sustainable peace.
Tensions have escalated in recent weeks, with occasional bouts of clashes between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army, which, according to Kigali and independent sources, has in recent days increased collaboration with FDLR, the militia largely blamed for the slaughter of a million people during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The situation also appears to have further strained relations between Rwanda and DR Congo with either side blaming the other of supporting elements opposed to their governments.
In particular, Kigali denounced what it described as “provocative and deliberate act by FARDC and Monusco” after two mortar bombs hit Rwandan villages from areas under the control of the Congolese army and the UN peacekeepers last month.
Yesterday’s regional summit came just hours after Monusco gave a 48-hour ultimatum to armed elements that are not part of the regular army within close proximity of the strategic eastern city of Goma to disarm.
By press time, it was not clear what measures Monusco would take after the deadline passes at 4pm today without the armed groups operating within an area the peacekeepers have identified as ‘peace zone’ laying down their weapons.
But M23, widely seen as the primary target of the UN peacekeepers’ planned operations, interpreted the ultimatum as an excuse for the blue helmets to attack the group.
The rebels, who include soldiers who mutinied last year accusing Kinshasa of breaching a 2009 peace deal that had integrated members of a former rebel group, have warned that they will return UN fire with fire.
Observers say the proposal to set up an ICGLR Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre would complement other existing regional mechanisms, including the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism, a team composed of military experts from all the member states, based in Goma.
A similar arrangement existed previously among DR Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi under what used to be known as Tripartite-Plus Joint Commission that sought to build confidence among participating countries.
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angeshughulikia kesi yake tu kwa sasa. Mapenzi yake kwa Kagame yatamponza zaidi.
 
kidole007 said:
“DRC has a duty to protect its citizens, but
it has no effective army. If DRC feels the
rebels are from Rwanda, kill them and
bring the bodies so that we can see them.”


kauli hii some one explain
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Kumbe na wewe ndugu yangu umeiona hii eeh; Museveni nyambaf kabisa huyu mtusi. Anafikiri watu wote mazezeta kama akili yake yeye ilivyo ya kizezeta. Anafikiria wat wote wanafikiri kwa makalio!
 
kenya wamemaliza shida kubwa Somalia.. sasa wanaenda DRC kusaidia baadaye tupeleke majeshi kusaidia Malawi kuna fununu wananyang'wa urithi wao na inchi jirani!
 
Muthaisu said:
Museveni alisema vivyo hivyo!
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But Migingo is still under Museveni's possession! and u better forget about that island since UK is currently recieving mentorship from Museveni on his ICC case!
 
Geza Ulole said:
But Migingo is still under Museveni's possession! and u better forget about that island since UK is currently recieving mentorship from Museveni on his ICC case!
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False, Migingo is currently under joint ownership as we await the conclusion of survey work which unfortunately got stalled after the Ugandan team pulled out. Both country's police officers are manning the Island. Now tell us about Lake Nyasa. Is it still yours?
 
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