DRC still appealing to rebels to return

The DRC government has again appealed to rebels to return and work with the government, noting that Kabila was “willing to work with any Congolese ready to build the country”. “We wish to take this opportunity to ask our brothers the Congolese who lost their common sense by accepting to become agents of neo-colonialists to come back,” the press spokesman in the DRC embassy in Nairobi, Mubima Maneniang Milang, told IRIN. “They have betrayed the country in joining Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in the theft of Congo’s wealth and killings of innocent citizens in the north and east of the country,” he said. But, calling them “prodigal children”, he assured them that the president and the Congolese were “ready to forgive them and welcome them back, provided they say ‘No to imperialism’ and its agents.”