Angola on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) introduced plans to act as a mediator in the battle between Congo and the Rwandan-backed insurgent group M23, in accordance to a press launch posted on the official web page of the Angolan president’s workplace.
Felix Tshisekedi, the president of Congo, was in Angola to talk about a possible peace course of. According to the press launch, Angola will start to set up contacts with each the Congolese authorities and M23 rebels with direct negotiations to be carried out in the approaching days.
The announcement comes after a number of canceled peace talks hosted by Angola that had beforehand excluded M23 and as an alternative targeted on their Rwandan backers.
M23 is considered one of about 100 armed teams which have been vying for a foothold in mineral-rich jap Congo close to the border with Rwanda, in a battle that has created one of many world’s most important humanitarian crises. More than 7 million folks have been displaced.
The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, in accordance to U.N. consultants, and at occasions have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.
In a lightning three-week offensive, the M23 took management of jap Congo’s foremost metropolis Goma and seized the second largest metropolis, Bukavu, final month.
The U.N. Human Rights Council final month launched a fee that can examine atrocities, together with allegations of rape and killing akin to “summary executions” by each side.
Published – March 12, 2025 05:26 am IST
