Fear of Lusaka’s final failure growing

“The Lusaka Agreement could now collapse” in the face of ceasefires violations and more general failures to implement other steps towards an end to hostilities, analysts with ‘Oxford Analytica’ stated on Wednesday. “Real commitment to the ... peace initiative on the part of the many warring parties has yet to be established”, and significant improvements in implementation will have to be achieved if the UN is even to consider expansion of its troop deployment. Meanwhile, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the DRC, Roberto Garreton, has stated in his latest report that, “until now, in operational matters, the only party to have fulfilled its obligations under the ceasefire agreement appears to be the United Nations.”. He said there was a general perception throughout DRC that “the international community is not doing anything to end the conflict”, yet there was no consensus on what it was that abstraction called ‘the international community’ should do.