mood and dismissed suggestions that they would hold peace talks with Rwanda and Uganda during the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. „I have nothing to say to them, except to leave our country,“ Congolese Foreign Minister Yerodia Ndombase told reporters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu were expected to arrive in Maputo later on Wednesday to brief the SADC leaders on weekend fighting between their troops in the Congolese city of Kisangani which left at least 50 people dead. Rwanda and Uganda are not members of the 14-member organisation which links South Africa and its near neighbours. The two countries had been allies in supporting rebels in a year-old war against Congolese President Laurent Kabila, but they now support rival rebel factions and tensions erupted into violence over the weekend. Kabila flew home from Maputo in a huff on Tuesday after informal talks ahead of the regional summit failed to deliver a breakthrough in the search for peace in his country. A truce signed on July 10 by six African countries embroiled in the Congo has crumbled due to divisions within the rebel camps. Salim Ahmed Salim, Secretary General of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), told reporters the summit faced a difficult test in trying to resolve the Congo war. „The real challenge is to bring everybody on board for a ceasefire…unfortunately, until now the ceasefire has not been implemented because the rebels were quarrelling,“ Salim said. Other regional leaders declined comment to reporters after arriving at the summit venue. They were holding talks behind closed doors for the rest of the day and planned to issue a communique in the evening. Aside from the region‘s conflicts, the statement was expected to address central bank gold sales and debt relief for poorer countries. Britain‘s decision in May to sell more than half its gold reserves sent bullion prices tumbling to record lows and threatens gold mines in several southern African countries. SADC is made up of Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, South Africa and Seychelles.