Angola and DRC sign three agreements on security and movements of people

Three agreements were signed between the Congolese and Angolan authorities to sanction the end of the bilateral defense and security meeting between the Republic of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo held since September 14th.

After three days of exchange in Luanda, from 14 to 16 September, the ten governors of the boundaries between the DRC and Angola reached an agreement on the security issue at the border, the constitution a bilateral permanent commission of governors of the surrounding provinces and management of the impact of Covid-19.

With particular regard to the security issue, governors agree to support a new era of active collaboration between the parties, to diligent the implementation of the legal instruments necessary for the realization of collaboration between the parties, to encourage their respective states To identify the border population with a view to monitoring and facilitating the flow, to authorize and harmonize the cost of local crossing taxes at border crossing crossing crossing to facilitate the movement of people and goods and to discourage fraud.

They are also committed to establishing border crossings and markets to facilitate trade and to support the establishment of respective consular missions in border provinces.

In addition to defence and security issues, these provincial authorities have supported the idea of the establishment of a bilateral standing committee of governors in the surrounding provinces. Commission which should meet alternatively in each country.

The Congolese side was represented by governors Dieudonné Pieme Tutokot (Kasai), Ambroise Kamukuny (Central Kasai), Atou Matubuana (Kongo central), Leopold Kangulumba (Kwango), Madame Fifi Masuka Saini, Vice-Governor of Lualaba.

Angolan side was represented by Dr. Miguel dos Santos de Oliveira, Deputy Governor of Cabinda Province, Dr. Ernesto Muangala, Governor of Lunda Norte, Victor da Silva de Oliveira, Deputy Governor of Moxico Province, Sérgio Lúther Rescova Joaquim, Governor of Uíge and Mr. Pedro Makita Arnaldo Júlia from Zaire province.

According to the press of the Kasaï-Central governorate which delivers the information, this is an agreement on defense and security, the movement of people and their goods along the common border and a memorandum of intent on the creation of the permanent joint defense and security commission between the two countries.

The said meeting, moderated by the Secretary of State for the Interior of the Republic of Angola, José Bamóquina Zau, assisted by the Head of the Department of Central and West Africa, Campos Viera Campos, mainly focused on 3 main topics whose :

- Strengthening border security for both parties;

- The establishment of a permanent bilateral commission of provincial governors;

- And managing the impact of covid-19 and pooling resources to eradicate it.

The Republic of Angola was represented by the Vice-Governor in charge of Economic and Social Policy of Cabinda, the Governor of the Province of Lunda Norte, the Vice-Governor of Economic and Social Policy of the Province of Moxico, as well as the governor of the province of Zaire.

And for the Congolese part, the governor of the province of Kasaï, the governor of the province of Kasaï-Central, the governor of the province of Kongo-Central, the governor of the province of Kwango, as well as the vice-governor of the province of Lualaba.