RCD-ML scorns call for dialogue with Mayi-Mayi

The RCD-Mouvement de liberation (ML) of Ernest Wamba dia Wamba has rejected a call by another rebel grouping, the Conseil national de resistance pour la democratie (CNRD) of Gaston Kangele Mubawa, for Uganda and Rwanda to engage in dialogue with tribal leaders in Nord- and Sud-Kivu as a means of ending attacks by the Mayi-Mayi militia. “Kangele’s group only exists in name,” said RCD-ML official Mbusa Nyamwisi, quoted by the ‘New Vision’ on Saturday. “It is a briefcase organisation sympathetic to the Mayi-Mayi.” Kangele also called on Uganda and Rwanda to hold elections in eastern DRC to find Congolese leaders with grassroots support, claiming that both RCD factions were deeply unpopular with ordinary people.