The President is trying to decide whether to contest or postpone December s polls while juggling his political alliances and musing on threats in the east, President Félix Tshisekedi has been consolidating power, but that does not mean accountability and better governance are any closer than when he fraudulently won the presidency in 2018. A presidential election is scheduled in December and rather than fight to win it, Tshisekedi s advisors are counselling postponing the elections by using the conflict in the east with Rwanda s proxies, the M23 guerrillas, as an excuse.
Presidents Ruto and Tshisekedi meet in Kinshasa on 21 November over East African mission to pacify the east, Pledging more support for the Nairobi Peace Process , President William Ruto met with his counterpart Félix Tshisekedi on 21 November to underline Nairobi s economic and security interests in the success of the East African Community s intervention in easter Congo-Kinshasa.
, The international community s weak and contradictory responses to the fighting between the Congolese army and Tutsi rebel group M23 means that, apart from criticism from the United States, Rwanda is feeling little heat over its backing of the insurgents.
New policy statements on Africa from Washington and Brussels are being measured against sluggish actions on debt and climate policy, Russia s war on Ukraine dominated the best attended UN General Assembly for years – much to the detriment of progress on preparations for the COP27 climate summit and a more coherent plan to support economies still reeling from the pandemic and the financial damage from Europe s war.
In his eagerness to woo Tshisekedi, Museveni makes a down payment on disputed debt, Uganda s move to pay the first US$65 million installment towards its $325m reparations bill to Congo-Kinshasa, despite describing the Netherlands-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision to award the monies as unfair and wrong , is the latest sign of diplomatic rapprochement between Kampala and Kinshasa.