Clampdown marks dissension in Goma rebel ranks

Endudo was suspended by the RCD two weeks ago, along with two other senior officials Alexis Tambwe Mwaba (who held the 'foreign affairs' portfolio) and Lambert Mende (mobilisation and propaganda). Tambwe Mwamba said on Thursday he had sent his resignation to the RCD-Goma President Emile Ilunga, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. "I don't have the impression that, with the leadership of the movement in Goma - which believes in a military victory, like Kabila in Kinshasa - we will have peace," Tambwe Mwamba said. The RCD executive said in a statement broadcast from Goma that, following recent unrest in the town, its executive committee was taking measures to guarantee the security of people and their possessions
in the "liberated territories." All dissident tendencies would be firmly resisted, it added. In that regard, the executive had relieved of their functions the Governor of Maniema, Nestor Kilumbi, and Vice-Governor, Abeli Butezi, the statement said. The RCD had appointed Dr Gertrude Kitembo as Governor, Kasongo Olango as Vice-Governor for the Economy and Finance, and Albert Shindano as the Vice-President in charge of Administration, the statement added.