Summary of events (p. 2-4)

• Great Lakes: Signature of ore certification project; Finance agreement between the EU and the CEPJL; Reactions of the region’s States to the UN Mapping Report; Towards an ECCAS-CEMAC merger.
• DRC: Preparations for 2011 elections; European Security and Defence Policy; Ban on mining in the Kivu; Claims made by former CNDP officers.
• Burundi: Power locks itself in; Deterioration of the economic landscape; Birth of a new rebellion?
• Rwanda : Kagame criticized by his own; Gerald Gahima testifies against Kagame in Spain.

Advocacy (p.5-6)

How to combat the LRA? Peace against justice? RECIC memorandum on the CENI; Advocacy in the USA, etc.

Main documents received (p. 7 - 8)