The deal means M23 rebels will take order to withdraw immediately
A new agreement has been struck between DR Congo and Rwanda which could mean that adoption of a ceasefire in the violence torn east of DR Congo as soon as late Friday, Angola’s Foreign Minister Tete Antonio has said.
DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi met Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta in Luanda on Wednesday as tensions soared between the neighbours amid bloody militia violence on their border.
Eastern DRC has witnessed fierce fighting in recent months between Congolese troops and the M23 rebel group.
An agreement was reached for an “immediate ceasefire” in the DRC at 18:00 (1600 GMT) Friday, Tete said after the talks.
The parties also agreed to demand “the immediate withdrawal of M23 rebels from the occupied areas”, he added.
The clashes have triggered a diplomatic row, with the DRC accusing Rwanda of aiding the rebels, something that its far smaller neighbour denies.
The EAC’s chair, Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye, and former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta – the EAC’s “facilitator” in efforts to restore peace and security in the mineral-rich region – were also in Luanda.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame was not in attendance at the talks for reasons that were not immediately clear.
But truth be told, the issues of DR Congo are much beyond President Kagame and M23 rebels, there are several invisible powers that are behind the confusion in the DR Congo and are plundering it. The invisible powers and countries love it that the area remains in confusion so that they keep plundering a mineral rich region.
