Kabila-Kagame summit criticised

Last weekend's summit in Eldoret, Kenya between Presidents Kabila and Kagame is being viewed with suspicion by Ugandan officials and Ugandan-backed Congolese rebels. "In a deal quickly reached behind Moi's back, Kabila would arrest the leaders of the Interahamwe and other former Rwandan armed forces in exchange for Kagame not fighting him again," the semi-official Ugandan 'New Vision' claimed. "Kabila also accepted Kagame taking possession of the diamond/gold-rich Mbuji Mayi city in exchange for a union to defeat Uganda and the Uganda- backed MLC of Jean-Pierre Bemba." The paper quoted the "prime minister" of the Uganda backed RCD-ML movement, Mbusa Nyamwisa, as saying that the Eldoret meeting "reveals the enemy of the Congolese". "We shall fight and defeat both Rwanda and Kabila," he added. However, the Rwandan authorities denied that a deal had been reached with Kabila. "It is an insult to insinuate that Rwanda has no capacity to pursue its interests," Rwandan army spokesman Major Emmanuel Ndahiro told IRIN. "The meeting with Kabila was brokered by President Moi and it was complementary to the Lusaka agreement and has been welcomed by the UN Security Council." He noted that Kabila had also sent envoys to Uganda, and had even signed an agreement in Sirte, Libya with President Museveni. "Nobody made such a noise," he said.