The Minister of Foreign Affairs has taken stock of the concerns aroused by the conflict which is worsening in North Kivu and could lead to an open war between Kinshasa and its Rwandan neighbor.
By Colette Braeckman
Ie pessimism of intelligence and optimism of will”… This sentence from Gramci could sum up the journey of Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib: in Angola as in Kinshasa, she discovered how much Belgium remained present in the memories but especially in the expectations of his interlocutors. But she also took stock of the concerns aroused by the conflict which is worsening in North Kivu and could lead to an open war between Kinshasa and its Rwandan neighbor.
The mini-summit which brought together in Bujumbura the heads of state of the region, including Paul Kagame and Félix Tshisekedi – who looked at each other like faience dogs – did not reassure anyone, quite the contrary: it confirmed that the force military deployed in North Kivu by the East African Community (EAC) is about to follow in the footsteps of Monusco (the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo), which is preparing to leave after two decades of presence.
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