One day, however, Rwanda may end up administering the provinces of North and South Kivu.
Scientists have warned that if nothing is done, millions of people living around Lake Kivu are in danger.
"The current humanitarian crisis in the North Kivu province is a scar on the conscience of the world, " he said.
Rwanda is holding more than 280 troops accused of desertion on an island in Lake Kivu, the army has revealed.
Congolese government officials were quick to blame M23, a rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province.
It is hoped that the rehabilitation of Mount Rubavu will stimulate the economy by creating a second tourist attraction to complement Lake Kivu.
The volcanic soils of North Kivu are fertile and the roads are still good enough to allow farmers to send their produce to local markets.
It revealed that Lake Kivu, in Rwanda, is becoming saturated with carbon dioxide just as Lake Nyos was, and is seriously at risk of lake overturn.
Cheerful, hopeful music drifts out across the potholed street, past the soldiers lounging under a tree, and out over the clear blue waters of Lake Kivu.
The fighting in the area in the province of North Kivu in eastern Congo, has displaced more than 250, 000 people since August, the United Nations reported.
In Bukavu, the eastern capital of South Kivu, close to the frontier with Rwanda, a variety of people are now inclined to take a pro-Kabila line.
The recent twinning of Rwanda with South Kivu, presented by the rebel authorities as a sign of mutual understanding and co-operation, has only made matters worse.
Recent fighting between rebels and government troops has been concentrated in the province of North Kivu in eastern Congo, prompting the displacement of 250, 000 people since August.
Masika's husband's family rejected them and she brought her daughters and their babies to a market town hugging the shore of Lake Kivu to try and rebuild their lives.
Mont Rubavu is situated in Gisenyi, a city of more than 100 000 inhabitants which shares the highest lake in Africa, Lake Kivu, with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The situtation is unpredictable, but some analysts think that Rwanda and Uganda will come to blows, either directly or by proxy, in Congo's North Kivu province, where both armies operate.
"M23 elements are concentrated in a corner of the eastern Kivu, which is next to the borders of Rwanda and Uganda, " Mr Ladsous told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council.
"As of this hour, the information that we have is that the cease-fire is holding in North Kivu (province), " Kevin Kennedy told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York at noon.
Goma, North Kivu's lakeside trading town, is relatively calm.
Mr Kabila, in charge of a vast country, can do little to suppress the Mai Mai or the other groups who use the chaos in the Kivu provinces to turn to banditry.
Fighting between the M23 and the army has displaced close to a million people in North Kivu province and more than 300, 000 in the southeastern province of Katanga, according to the United Nations.
The other award of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy goes to Collectif Alpha Ujuvi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for its programme, Peaceful Coexistence of Communities and Good Governance in North Kivu.
North Kivu provincial governor Julien Paluku told the BBC that security was being increased in Goma, as he feared the rebels would try to cut the city off from the provincial army headquarters in Bueremana.
The agency says there has been "relative calm" in North Kivu this week, allowing officials to develop a displaced persons camp more than 9 miles from Kibati, on the outskirts of Goma, the North Kivu capital.
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"To put an end to this situation, one of the solutions would be to impose an embargo on all minerals coming from Rwanda, until the establishment of a lasting peace in the provinces of North and South Kivu, " DR Congo's Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said in the letter seen by Reuters.
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