South Malawi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/category/south-malawi/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 South Malawi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/category/south-malawi/ 32 32 Hutu rebels in DRC fail to meet surrender ultimatum https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/hutu-rebels-drc-fail-meet-surrender-ultimatum/ Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/hutu-rebels-drc-fail-meet-surrender-ultimatum/ President Jacob Zuma says Hutu rebels hiding out in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not meeting an ultimatum to surrender. So, regional leaders will meet in Angola next week to decide on what steps to take. Speaking as chairman of SADC’s defence arm, President Jacob Zuma says only 337 rebels from the Democratic Forces […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma says Hutu rebels hiding out in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not meeting an ultimatum to surrender.

So, regional leaders will meet in Angola next week to decide on what steps to take.

Speaking as chairman of SADC’s defence arm, President Jacob Zuma says only 337 rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda known as the FDLR turned themselves in by last Friday.

That means less than a quarter have complied with the January 2 deadline set by regional leaders.
Zuma says SADC leaders will meet in Angola on January 15 and 16 to decide on how to respond.

He adds the regional body’s ready to play its fullest
part.
Fourteen months ago the Congolese army backed by UN soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi forced the surrender of M23, another rebel group in the area.

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