| Pessimists looking at the final hours of the DRC Dialogue meeting that has
taken place over the last 45 days at Sun City, may get the idea that the number of
outstanding points which have not been agreed upon by government, opposition parties and
some of the rebel movements, amount to a failure of the talks. Others would say that it
would have been virtually impossible for the talks to have delivered agreements on all
substantive points within 45 days. Former SA MP and Great Lakes area expert, Jan Van Eck,
points to the definition of the problem facing the DRC as a big step forward - there is
not one civil war happening in the country, but eight minor civil wars, with individual
rebel movements fighting amongst themselves as well as against the government. He sees the
internal security of Rwanda as holding the key to what will happen to the patch work war
inside the DRC. Rwandean and Burundian security are inter linked. This is a
meaningful insight. |
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