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United Nations Peacekeeping
4 Mar
2009
Press Review
Today's local papers devote their major headlines to the tour of DRC provinces by Vice-president Azarias Ruberwa within the framework of the DRC reunification process. Some papers analyze the presidential decrees appointing officers for the military regions and the Congolese national police.
The Vice-President of the political, defense and security commission started his tour Saturday with the city of Kisangani. The next leg of his tour is Mbuji Mayi and then Kananga. « Azarias Ruberwa leads an important government delegation on an evaluation mission of the reunification process since the transitional institutions were put in place» indicates Le Potentiel. While in Kisangani, « he chaired a lengthy meeting with all the political, military and security officials of the Eastern province on security».
« Ruberwa's tour to Mbuji Mayi and Kananga may be a decisive one» says La Tempête des Tropiques. « The Kasaï Oriental and Kasaï Occidental residents are deprived of a portion of their respective provinces, one under government control and the other under RCD (Congolese Rally for democracy). Sankuru district in Kasaï Oriental and Dimbelenge district in Kasaï Occidental are not unified with the rest of their provinces. Vice-President Ruberwa must address this sensitive issue» explains the paper.
La Référence Plus indicates « Vice-President Ruberwa received assurances on the restoration of peace to the Eastern province' People can now move in-between the big centers in the province. Even the Kisangani-Ituri road is now operational. One can hardly see the barriers erected at the height of the war. This good news will further be reinforced with the January deployment to Ituri of one brigade of the integrated national Police force, currently formed in Kisangani. »
Le Palmarès, in turn, focuses on the appointments by President Joseph Kabila of the officers of the DRC Armed Forces, in acronym FARDC and the national Police force. The Congolese Head of State signed three decrees on 20 December 2003, appointing one commander-in-chief and two second in commandant officers for the military regions, Brigadier General Rwibasira Obed, Colonels Mutebutsi Jules and Siro Nsimba. According to Le Palmarès, « these three nominations conclude the series of appointments initiated with the formation of the FARDC General Army Staff; the appointments came in to fill the vacant posts turned down by three RCD officers. » The Head of State also appointed five high-ranking officers for the Congolese National Inspection and Police.
« Ruberwa's tour to Mbuji Mayi and Kananga may be a decisive one» says La Tempête des Tropiques. « The Kasaï Oriental and Kasaï Occidental residents are deprived of a portion of their respective provinces, one under government control and the other under RCD (Congolese Rally for democracy). Sankuru district in Kasaï Oriental and Dimbelenge district in Kasaï Occidental are not unified with the rest of their provinces. Vice-President Ruberwa must address this sensitive issue» explains the paper.
La Référence Plus indicates « Vice-President Ruberwa received assurances on the restoration of peace to the Eastern province' People can now move in-between the big centers in the province. Even the Kisangani-Ituri road is now operational. One can hardly see the barriers erected at the height of the war. This good news will further be reinforced with the January deployment to Ituri of one brigade of the integrated national Police force, currently formed in Kisangani. »
Le Palmarès, in turn, focuses on the appointments by President Joseph Kabila of the officers of the DRC Armed Forces, in acronym FARDC and the national Police force. The Congolese Head of State signed three decrees on 20 December 2003, appointing one commander-in-chief and two second in commandant officers for the military regions, Brigadier General Rwibasira Obed, Colonels Mutebutsi Jules and Siro Nsimba. According to Le Palmarès, « these three nominations conclude the series of appointments initiated with the formation of the FARDC General Army Staff; the appointments came in to fill the vacant posts turned down by three RCD officers. » The Head of State also appointed five high-ranking officers for the Congolese National Inspection and Police.
