Rwanda unlikely to attend regional summit

The Rwandan authorities say they were not involved in preparations for a regional summit on Congo scheduled to take place in Zimbabwe on Friday. "We got an invitation to go for a summit in Zimbabwe, which is a surprise because there was an earlier communication indicating that Mozambique was supposed to host the summit," Rwandan presidential adviser Major Emmanuel
Ndahiro told IRIN on Wednesday. "The fact that we were not involved in preparations for the summit makes it difficult for us to attend."

Meanwhile, a source in the Ugandan foreign ministry told IRIN that the idea of a regional summit on Congo was floated on the "sidelines" of the Europe-Africa meeting held in Cairo earlier this month by regional leaders. "The presidents of Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia decided that since the international community was not doing enough to end
the war in the DRC, the belligerents themselves should take the initiative of resolving the conflict and President Joachim Chissano of Mozambique was tasked to organise a summit to implement the idea," said the Ugandan
official.