and $23.00 rebels have been advancing in the east after taking the major city of goma. tara o'connor is the founder and executive director of africa. risk consulting. she says south africa is trying to find out what went wrong for its troops. in the d. r c, the transfer is, is growing that so that's, so it's off can treats were effectively very well, humiliated in game. uh. and they were on the test results that they were out out maneuvered as a pilot. and the guns by rewind and defense, forced back to him 23 rebel forces. and i think the greatest failing was perhaps one of intelligence gathering military intelligence gathering in the region where they had not either received information. the n 23 rebel forces were being vastly expanded in that capacity a by it is assumed by either a one defense force president run the opposed to release the statement today. to talk about the pushing folk rates of dialogue and encouraging. they had a, a unique regional summit which was between the east african community and the south african development community to discuss this very issue. and they

south african troops for guarding tar o'connor is the founder and executive director of africa. risk consulting, and she joins us a lot for from cape town. i assume tara, that are very serious questions being raised about why the country has lost 14 troops. how that could be allowed to happen, and if there were any failings in their preparedness, what are they saying? and what's the discussion at this session? well, the discussion, i think, i think we initial discussion will be commemoration loudness of one to on the troops that have been full and that's a full and a little bit slow. so i think that the south african government has been very slow to respond. they didn't call an emergency session or anything like that. they wait until a formal a thing of parliament. and so i think best light key on the back foot on this. but the, the transfer is, is growing that, and that's south of contributes where effectively varies was humiliated in game. and they were on the transfer is also that they were out out maneuvered as a pallet. and i guns by rwandan defense forced by 1023 rebel forces. and i think the greatest failing was perhaps one of intelligence gath