Congolese President Joseph Kabila completed a six day, 1000 kilometre, road trip last week, after traveling through the country's east to Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, on its border with Rwanda. North Kivu has long been most ravaged by Rwanda and Uganda's M23 militia and its previous incarnations. Kabila said that he had undertaken the road trip to demonstrate that territory once occupied by M23 is now safe. However, the dirt roads were so drenched with rain that video showed his vehicle and those of the rest of his entourage struggling through mud, turning over, and being pushed out of the mud by soldiers or hoisted out by tow trucks. |
Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.anngarrison.com
Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)