President Museveni will host a summit of the Great Lakes region states to resolve the ongoing political instability and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Rwanda and DRC 'in border deal'

The summit, which is scheduled for next month, follows the just-ended 19th ordinary Summit of Heads of State of the African Union in Addis Ababa, which recommended the formation of an army to support the weak DRC government.

Kinshasa has struggled to put down a mutiny and armed insurrection by the M23 rebel group which it – and the United Nations – says is supported by Kigali, claims that Rwanda denies.

The Kampala meeting will examine the sources of conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region, focusing on the challenges of stabilising lightly governed regions such as northern and eastern DRC and northern Uganda.

“In the eastern part of the DRC, conditions have been deteriorating and that violence must end immediately,” UN deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said in Addis Ababa.

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