Livingstone, Zambia – January 13, 2026 – The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) held an Extraordinary Meeting of the Committee of Ministers of Defence on 10th January 2026, in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia, in Livingstone, Zambia. This meeting aimed to address the critical security and humanitarian issues in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their regional implications.
Ministers from ICGLR member states—Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia—discussed creating a unified regional response aligned with the ICGLR Pact on Security, Stability, and Development, Doha Peace Framework, and Washington Accords. The ministers adopted measures to improve regional stability, including: … (Download Press Statement)