“We have achieved a clear and tangible result,” Floribert Anzuluni said at a press conference in Kinshasa on 29 July. The DRC‘s minister for regional integration has spent months working behind the scenes to secure the agreement of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) – an armed group that Kigali has long portrayed as an existential threat in the eastern Congo conflict – to a memorandum of understanding providing for its demobilisation, disarmament and cantonment, with the objective of its “definitive dissolution”.
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