Sorry if I missed the celebrations, but did we really mark the first year of our dear Democratic Republic of Congo joining the East African Community on July 11? Or maybe I didn’t merit the invite for indeed. Otherwise, could it be that the good people in Arusha forgot our last born’s first birthday, such a milestone, because they were busy planning how to throw out the financial request for translation services to enable the Congolese members of the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) participate meaningfully in its deliberations?
There were also other pressing matters as the DRC was also busy figuring out how to throw the very East African intervention force which it accuses of failing (or fearing) to face the M23 rebels that it went in to contain. Kinshasa was also busy trying to make bilateral military deals with several countries to replace the EAC force and the world’s most expensive UN peace keeping force, Monusco.
