This week, the host of 'The Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya' discusses what the leaks and mixed signals coming from Kinshasa mean for the peace process in eastern DR Congo – a region that has been hit with crisis upon crisis for the last three decades. On Friday, February 9 army heads from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo met in Nairobi to plan the deployment of additional troops to the restive Eastern Region of the DRC. Just hours after the army heads meeting, sections of the minutes of the meeting, marked top secret, were published online by unknown actors. These sections included maps of the areas of operations, as well as timelines for M23 withdrawal from occupied regions. Days later, when asked by local media about the leaked document DRC’s foreign minister, Christophe Lutundula, said he was yet to decipher the signed communique. This begs the question, are these leaks and DRC’s response to them just another incident in a long line of incidents, or are they a symptom of state collapse? Subscribe to ‘The Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya’ on Spotify, Apple and Amazon Music. To be part of the conversation, tweet us your thoughts with the hashtag #LongFormRw
