Conflict. The intensified search for a peaceful solution comes in the wake of calls in Kinshasa by the Defence Minister for the arrest of renegade Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, separately indicted by the ICC.
Uganda yesterday announced it is convening an emergency meeting of eleven countries in the Great Lakes region on Wednesday, this week, to thrash out urgent measures of defusing the upsurge in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
“We are telling the [warring] parties to have some patience and refrain [from further confrontations],” acting Foreign Affairs Minister Henry Oryem-Okello, who will chair the planned meeting in Addis Ababa, said by telephone.
Kampala presently chairs the 11-member International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), founded in 2010, to prevent conflicts with potential for cross-border ramifications, while promoting sustainable regional peace, security and development.
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