RCD’s Nyarugabo meets Uvira traditional chiefs

The RCD-Goma second vice-president, Moise Nyarugabo, met traditional chiefs in Uvira on Friday to try and work out ways of “peaceful co-habitation” in the area, rebel-controlled Uvira radio reported. It described the meetings as successful, adding that one of the issues agreed upon was for the radio itself to “avoid the campaign for negative forces and Kinshasa forces”. “RTNC [radio television nationale congolaise]-Uvira should have the courage to deny confusing information, it should be objective,” the radio said. It also said Nyarugabo condemned a recent meeting in Kigoma, Tanzania, “between delegates of the Kinshasa government and some negative forces...a meeting during which strategies were adopted by the enemy with a view to using Uvira as the rear base of aggressive neighbouring countries”.