President Nujoma met with DRC leader Joseph Kabila, Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to review the way forward.

State House said the meeting also reviewed the progress in the withdrawal of foreign armies from DRC under the peace plan.

Namibia, Angola and Zimbabwe backed the DRC government in a war which broke out in 1998, when rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda launched an insurgency aimed at ousting the then president Laurent Kabila.

Two main rebel movements now control more than a third of the country. One of them, the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC), signed a peace deal with Kinshasa in April which was never fully implemented but which has ended armed conflict in the north.

Eastern DRC, however, remains wracked by conflict, mainly among local forces engaged in a power struggle after Rwanda early this month pulled out the last of its troops backing the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD).

Rwandese President Paul Kagame has warned he may have to send soldiers back into the DRC because of a threat from Rwandan extremist Hutu rebels based there.

Namibia withdrew its troops last year.

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