• Congo-Kinshasa: Does DRC Need Surveillance Drones?

    The New Times (Kigali), 10 January 2013

    As efforts towards a negotiated solution to the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue, the UN is pushing for deployment of surveillance drones in the area.

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  • GottyInternationalaffairs
    Jan 12 2013, 07:54

    As long as the people of the DRC are happy with the proposal, fellow Africans, and in particular Rwandans should wait and see what is going to happen before criticizing. When armed units leave their bases in Rwanda and Uganda and go into the Congo, no analysts talk about the integrity and the sovereignty of the Congo. we need to understand that Washington, Paris, London foreign policy in the Great Lakes Region is shifting. They want a stable and peaceful Congo and if the drones can help in any way to achieve that, we should support it. There is nothing good that can come from Uganda and Rwanda in favour of the DRC because they are part of the problems in the Congo since 1994.

  • belafrica
    Jan 12 2013, 12:08

    Can Rwanda come on the open and tell the international community why drones should not be deployed? We might be shocked to see in Rwanda concentration Camps,or cows Having affairs with......