Khartoum will Host a meeting of defence ministers from the Great Lakes Region on August 2 to review progress and fast tracking implementation of decisions made in a similar meeting about a year ago in Kigali, Rwanda.
The previous Kigali meeting deliberated on the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The meeting will also flesh out the details of how to establish a neutral international force that the region’s heads of state agreed to on July 15 in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the African Union Summit.
One of the decisions especially establishment of a Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre has already been acted upon. The centre opened in June in the eastern DRC town of Goma.
Illegal mining has been cited as the chief source of funds that the different militias operating in the area use to purchase weaponry.
The neutral international force force will also tackle the FDLR composed of remnants of the Interahamwe who carried out the 1994 genocide — and all other negative forces in eastern DRC, as well as patrol and secure border zones.
The Khartoum meeting is intended to inform the Extraordinary Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region that Uganda, in its capacity as the current chair of the Conference, agreed to host in Kampala on August 6-7 to address the security situation in eastern Congo.
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