Luanda — The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Defence and Security troika is meeting Wednesday in Maputo, Mozambique, to discuss matters concerning the region, with stress to the situation prevailing in the Great Lakes.

Besides Angola, the troika includes Mozambique and Swaziland, whose representatives are expected to take a position and design a strategy to avoid the spread of the conflict into the countries of the region.

A military instability is raging in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), with Congolese rebel of tutsi origin, led by gen. Laurent Kunda, waging an offensive in the northern Kivu province, at the border with Rwanda.

SADC is a politico-economic bloc grouping South Africa, Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesoto, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.