Masire in Kinshasa

The OAU appointed inter-Congolese dialogue facilitator, Ketumile Masire is in Kinshasa, DRC for talks with the government, a statement from his office said. According to the statement, the talks were a sequel to consultations he held with the armed opposition in the eastern part of the country recently. He met the Goma-based Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) officials and those of the Gbadolite-based Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC) and also those of the Congolese Liberation Front (CLF) in Beni, northeastern DRC. “The talks were most useful and a definite step in the right direction,” Masire said on Sunday. His consultations with the DRC government will also seek to accelerate the inter-Congolese dialogue that should result in a “new political dispensation” in the DRC, the statement noted. It quoted Masire as describing his last round of talks with DRC President Joseph Kabila on 18 March in Kinshasa as “sincere, profound and most productive”.