The RCD representative in Kampala said yesterday he was opening an office this week that would issue visas to rebel-controlled areas, Uganda’s semi-official ‘New Vision’ reported today. “It is my duty to issue visas to all those entering the territory in RCD control. In fact, I am interested in the Congolese embassy premises here,” Gaston Mubawa Kangare said. However, the newspaper quoted an official from the ministry of foreign affairs as warning that Kangare was operating in the country illegally. “We know only one Congolese embassy and one Congolese envoy in Kampala,” the official said. The official Congolese charge d’affaires, Isabella Iboula, is yet to return to the country since she left last November, the ‘New Vision’ added.
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