The stadium has since been home to thousands of Amisom peacekeepers supporting the Somali government.
The highest echelons of the UN security council have given this offensive their backing and the peacekeepers supported it by providing the Congolese army with food rations, fuel and transport, and occasionally fire-power.
The country is now divided in two, with the anti-Balaka controlling the West, Séléka in control of the Northeast, and international peacekeepers supporting a fragile government that has little authority outside of the capital.
Eventually, 2,500 armed peacekeepers will support the 500 unarmed observers monitoring the disengagement agreement.
Last week, European Union peacekeepers, with support of the local police, raided the Sarajevo apartment of Ljiljana Karadzic, Mr. Karadzic's wife, seizing documents and other materials.
After announcing on Thursday that the peacekeepers and support forces, totaling about 5,500 people under current plans, could have free access in Congo, Mr. Kabila's government appeared today to be backtracking, officials said here.
With the assistance of Ethiopian troops, AMISOM peacekeepers and air support by the United States, it managed to drive out the rival ICU and solidify its rule.
The city, therefore, sought additional help from "the Agency", an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create supersoldiers known as "Agents".
But he says he would support sending peacekeepers to Liberia.
It could support United Nations peacekeepers, and it could work at the highest level with China, Britain, Egypt and others to avoid a new war.
