BUJUMBURA  (AFP) – The intelligence services of 11 nations in AFrica’s Great Lakes region vowed Tuesday to create a joint security centre against rebel movements that “threaten peace and stability.”

The secret services pledged to provide “information about all the negative forces and armed groups that threaten the security of their country and the entire Great Lakes region,” said a confidential document seen by AFP.

The agreement by members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), said the new body will be based in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Each country will give “the names, designations, composition, order of battle, staff, activities … of the armed forces and armed groups,” the document read.

The ICGLR, founded in 2006 in Nairobi to try and bring peace and stability to one of the world’s most troubled regions, is made up of Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, DRC, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.

“We are here to exchange information … so that the negative forces that roam our area no longer have citizenship in any country,” DRC deputy intelligence chief Kalev Mutondo said at the end of the meeting.