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Viewing cable 08KINSHASA120, Goma Round-Up February 3, 2008

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08KINSHASA120 2008-02-04 16:25 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO9077
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #0120/01 0351625
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 041625Z FEB 08
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7469
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000120 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL SOCI CG
SUBJECT: Goma Round-Up February 3, 2008 
 
Ref:  Kinshasa 116 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  Kabila's envoy met South Kivu armed groups (minus 
Banyamulenge dissidents) February 2 in Goma and will meet with them 
again in Bukavu February 4.  Rumors of a split in CNDP appear to be 
false.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) The principal disturbance in the Kivus February 3 was an 
earthquake at 09:34 with its epicenter 20 kilometers north of Bukavu 
(reftel).  Tremors were noticeable in Goma but no loss of human life 
was reported here.  Aftershocks persisted through the day, moving 
from the western escarpment to the eastern escarpment.  The 
perennial fear in Goma is that shifting in the rift will, at some 
point, cause a rupture in the sides or base of the volcano 
Nyiragongo (15 kilometers north of Goma), which has the largest lava 
pool in the world and which leaked most recently in 2002 with great 
material damage to Goma.  But Goma and Gisenyi have apparently 
escaped the volcanic nightmare this time around. 
 
3.  (SBU) The rumor mill at the end of the week carried the message 
that the CNDP had split, with the leader of Nkunda's eastern pocket, 
Sultani Makenga, as the leader of a separate party.  Poloff spoke 
February 3 to Bertrand Bisimwa, member of the CNDP delegation to the 
Kivus Conference, who said that he had just spoken by telephone to 
Makenga, who he said laughed at the rumor.  (Bisimwa said he himself 
planned to remain in Goma as CNDP representative.)  MONUC Eastern 
Division commander General Bikram Singh told Poloff that he had had 
his local commander ask Makenga directly what was going on, and 
Makenga had similarly told him that there was nothing to the rumor. 
Apparently, Makenga had been holding meetings to inform his forces 
about the Acte d'Engagement, which meetings had been interpreted in 
the rumor mill to mean he was splitting off from Nkunda. 
 
4. (SBU) Separately, the chief of MONUC's Joint Military Assessment 
Committee told PolCouns February 4 in Kinshasa that a series of 
upgrades in the ranks of CNDP officers was the proximate cause of 
the rumor.  The process, which for example promoted Makenga and 
other senior battalion commanders to brigadier general, was aimed to 
ensure they would enter the FARDC through brassage at the higher 
ranks. 
 
5. (SBU) At the end-of-week OCHA meeting February 1, the UN security 
officer reported that the titular head of PARECO, "General" La 
Fontaine Kakule, had expressed willingness to go to brassage with 
200 combatants.   (Note:  PARECO appears to have several branches, 
but a representative of PARECO spoke at the Kivus Conference in the 
name of La Fontaine.  La Fontaine has in fact already gone through 
the brassage process.  End note.)  The security officer also noted 
reports of recent fighting between the FOCA and RUD factions of 
FDLR, north of Rutshuru.  OCHA reported that the roads to the west 
(Masisi) and to the north (Rutshuru and beyond) of Goma were open 
with traffic moving unhindered. 
 
6. (SBU) Kivus Conference president Apollinaire Malu Malu called EU 
poloff Jean-Pierre Dumont to say that he would be returning to 
Kinshasa from Canada February 7 and perhaps coming to Goma February 
8.  He sought Dumont's views on the aftermath of the conference, to 
which Dumont responded that Kabila's envoy, Vice-Admiral Didier 
Etumba, had gotten through a rocky week but that it had ended well. 
Dumont told Malu Malu that there was considerable confusion about 
the structures to be established in the wake of the conference. 
Malu Malu said that his grand concept of structures need not be 
taken too seriously, as the key organ would be the Technical 
Commission and particularly its military component functioning in 
the Kivus; all the rest, he said, was show to please ethnic and 
armed groups. 
 
7. (SBU) Kabila is sending a political team to Goma February 4, led 
by Norbert Basengezi Katintima, a confidant of conference leader 
Vital Kamerhe.  Katintima told Dumont that the team's mission was to 
support the efforts of Etumba, including bringing along an extra 
$50,000 to hand out to needy armed groups (if necessary) to promote 
their "flexibility." 
 
8. (SBU) Etumba met 17 representatives of South Kivu Mai Mai groups 
February 2 at the Karibu Hotel in Goma, where they were gathered for 
a week-long reconciliation workshop co-sponsored by the Wilson 
Center.  He urged them to travel February 3 to Bukavu, where Etumba 
would convene a full meeting of South Kivu armed groups in situ -- 
meaning, the same groups plus the Banyamulenge rebel group FRF (or 
Group of 47).  His essential message to the South Kivu Mai Mai was, 
"Do as I say, here is an extra 10,000 dollars" (which 8th Military 
Region commander General Vainqueur Mayala handed over).  The 17 
agreed to do as told. 
 
KINSHASA 00000120  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
9. (SBU) International facilitators (EU, UK, U.S.), SRSG Chief of 
Staff John Almstrom, and General Singh will participate in the 
Bukavu meeting February 4.  Almstrom and Singh will emphasize, as 
they did to the North Kivu armed groups January 31, the importance 
of utilizing the interim MONUC focal point to handle allegations of 
ceasefire violations. 
 
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