CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN Weekly Round-up 43
DRC: Bunia rebels resolve "internal crisis"
Members of the Bunia-based Rassemblement congolais pour la
democratie-Mouvement de liberation (RCD-ML), returned to Bunia at the end
of last week after spending 15 days in Uganda. Rebel-controlled Bunia
radio said they had returned after "resolving the internal crisis" in the
movement. "The committee was charged with looking into the fundamental
texts of the movement's constitution," RCD-ML spokesman, Jean-Ernest Louis
Kayiviro, who was also a member of the team, told IRIN on Monday. "The
committee actually wrote a new political programme, new constitution and
internal regulations," he said.
Meanwhile, there were demonstrations in Bunia on Monday against "rumours"
of changes affecting the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) local
military command and the presidential protection unit. "The UPDF made
changes without consulting us, not even our president [Wamba dia Wamba],"
Kayivira told IRIN. "As we are looking for support from the people, we
have learnt not to undertake any project without consulting them," he
said. "UPDF cannot impose on us, we have to be consulted," he insisted.
Kayiviro noted that the UPDF had "ignored" Wamba in its decision to remove
Colonel Charles Angina and even in changing the entire presidential guard.
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