Letter from Kinshasa
from Our Own Correspondent
TAKING his cue from
W
ashington and Moscow that authoritarian former presidents can and sometimes do make it back to power – usually madder and more vengeful than ever – our former president Joseph Kabila kicked off a tentative bid to do just that in Goma, in the war-torn east of our troubled land.
Goma, along with a large chunk of eastern, less-than-Democratic Republic of the Congo, is in the hands of the M23, mainly a Congolese ethnic Tutsi militia backed by our tiny but aggressive neighbour, Rwanda, which has deployed the heavily armed and well-trained Rwandan army to assist its territorial conquest.