President Paul Kagame has arrived in Kampala, Uganda today to attend the Heads of State Summit of International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) aimed at returning stability to the troubled Eastern DRC.

The summit comes after the ICGLR Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of state and Government at the sidelines of the AU Summit in July this year agreed that an extra-ordinary ICGLR Summit be convened in Kampala to further discuss in depth the security situation in Eastern DRC.

The 7-8 August event comes after 11 member states from the regional (ICGLR) have been meeting, first in Khartoum and now in Uganda.

Last week, Defence Ministers, under the backing of the ICGLR met in Khartoum, to discuss the occurrence of negative forces in the region.

It followed a meeting of experts on security. Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni is the incumbent chair of the ICGLR summit since December last year.

The 11 members of ICGLR are Uganda, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.