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The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, diplomats and officials said.

Uganda's former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend's flat in the capital, Kampala.

In the Democratic republic of Congo, the deputy governor of the restive North Kivu province says his administration is determined to rebuild destroyed infrastructure after years of rebel insurgencies.

While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the displacement of hundred of thousands must still be dealt with, a senior United Nations envoy said today.

No substitute for dialogue, says Kabila From Sydney Kawadza in MUTARE Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald DRC President Joseph Kabila has challenged Africa to follow his country's example by actively seeking dialogue and pursuing national reconciliation as a means of solving any internal differences.

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today attend a regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a bid to thrash out disputes undermining the Harare inclusive government.

The Southern African Development Community has drafted South African President Jacob Zuma into Thursday's meeting of SADC's troika on politics, defense and security in Maputo, Mozambique, on Thursday, regional sources said, increasing the leverage of the heads of state who will be trying to resolve the crisis in Harare's unity government.

A Zimbabwean deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party who was arrested for allegedly stealing a cell phone from an ally of President Robert Mugabe has been cleared of the charges.

Three regional leaders who form the SADC Troika will meet with Zimbabwea s feuding political leaders in Maputo, Mozambique on Thursday, to try to unlock the deadlock that threatens the unity government.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party will again boycott Cabinet's weekly meeting on Tuesday because "nothing has changed", a top official of the party said on Monday.

Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, told journalists in South Africa on Friday that he didna t believe the political deadlock in Zimbabwe was out of control.

The African continent is still being sidelined by international financial institutions, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

The Southern African Development Community is stepping up its intervention to resolve the crisis within Zimbabwe's eight-month-old national unity government, with SADC Chairman and Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila due in Harare on the heels of a two-day assessment and mediation mission by SADC foreign ministers.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila arrived at the OR Tambo International Airport last night to co-chair the 6th Bi-National Commission with President Jacob Zuma.

The SADC Troika on Defence, Security and Politics began its fact finding mission in Harare on Thursday in an effort to narrow the differences between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.

India Thursday said it will offer $263 million line of credit for three projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also set up an IT excellence centre in the Central African country.

Sacramento, CA, October 26, 2009 -- The site www.hopitaldelemera.org also seeks to remind the world that the Congolese government has not yet taken steps to rehabilitate the hospital which was destroyed in serious violations of the Geneva Conventions.

The three principals to the Global Political Agreement met in Harare on Monday for a first crisis summit, since the MDC disengaged from ZANU PF ten days ago.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was set to hold a crucial meeting on Tuesday with Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, who chairs the SADCa s organ on Politics, Security and Defence.

Recent reports highlight the failure of efforts to reform Congo's state and the continuing pillage of its mining industry by local and foreign interests.