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Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The joint intelligence center of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), which has the task to fight armed groups acting in the area, was inaugurated in Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). Our training team is made up of secret service officers of CIRGL States (DRC, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Central Africa, Republic of Congo, Kenya, Sudan), plus South Sudan, coordinated by an Angolan general.
At the opening ceremony of the center there was also a delegation of Rwanda despite recent tensions between Kinshasa and Kigali, caused by the alleged support to the Rwandese M23 Movement made up of deserters of the Congolese army, as stated by a UN report (see Fides 29/05/2012).
The multinational cooperation in order to stop the violence in eastern DRC, however, has not so far been free of controversy. In a recent editorial sent to Fides Agency from the " Peace Network for Congo ", one wonders, in the face of evidence collected by the UN on the Rwandese implication in the rebellion of the M23, if "the Congolese government will only look for solutions in synergy between the States in the Great Lakes region, "trap-signing other agreements with the Rwandese regime. "So far, this has proven not to be sincere in its relations with the DRC and when signing bilateral agreements with it, it is only to defend its interests at the cost of millions of innocent Congolese." (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 14/6/2012)
