Johannesburg - Leaders from the Southern African Development
Community (SADC) are to meet in South Africa on Sunday for talks on
the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, South
African officials said Wednesday.
South Africa's Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
said the extraordinary summit of the 15-member regional grouping
would hear the latest on negotiations for political power-sharing in
Zimbabwe. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe is to chair the
gathering.
The summit is expected to follow a regional summit on the
situation in the DR Congo scheduled to take place in Kenya on Friday.
The presidents of DR Congo and Rwanda, Joseph Kabila and Paul
Kagame, will definitely attend the summit at the Kenyatta
International Conference Centre in downtown Nairobi, Patrick Wamoto,
the head of the African and African Union Directorate in Kenya's
Foreign Ministry told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa earlier Wednesday.
Renewed fighting between rebels and pro-government militia
continued in the DR Congo for a second day Wednesday. Tens of
thousands of civilians have displaced after rebel Tutsi general
Laurent Nkunda's forces routed the Congolese army in North Kivu came
within reach of its capital Goma last week.
Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and pro-democracy leader Morgan
Tsvangirai have failed to conclude a deal agreed to on September 15
and aimed at ending the country's long-running political and economic
crisis.
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