Mbanza Kongo – The border authorities of Angola and the Democratic of Congo met in the last two days to decide the demolition of houses anarchically built along the border line in the towns of Nóqui (Angola) and Matadi (DRC), by September 5 of this year.
According to the final communiqué of the meeting held on the 8th and 9th of this month in the city of Matadi, capital of the Central Congo (DRC) region, and which ANGOP had access to this Saturday, the participants agreed that the demolitions will cover 13 precarious houses erected between milestones 1 and 6, whose destruction will be witnessed by the members of the Joint Commission of the two border locations.
The parties also recommended the need to preserve a space of about 50 meters on the common border line, in areas not yet built, to facilitate joint patrolling by security forces.
Headed by the municipal administrator of Nóqui, Manuel José António, the Angolan delegation to the event, asked the Congolese side to exempt the payment of fees to the vehicles of employees of the two regions who enter their respective territories on a service mission.
The final communiqué urges the authorities of the neighboring country to raise awareness among the population that practices agriculture in the national territory, to use legal access routes to their farms, as well as to avoid the devastation of flora and fauna.
The Angolan delegation was made up of 30 elements, including the vice-consul of Angola in Matadi, heads of the defence, security, internal order, SME, IGCA, AGT, among other technicians.
On the Congolese side, the delegation was headed by the administrator of the town of Matadi, Dominique Nkodia Mbete, and involved members of the General Directorate of Migration (DGM), urban planning technicians, land affairs, public works and defense and security agencies of this country.
This is the second time that the entities of the two border regions have met in less than two months to deal with issues of bilateral interest.
The last meeting was held in the first half of July in the town of Nóqui, Zaire province.
Zaire shares a 310 km border with the DRC. JL/DOJ
