Talks, which DRC previously refuteed, will seek to remend the spiralling struggle in the east of the country.
The Rwanda-backed M23 resist group, as well as the Congolese regulatement, have validateed that they will participate in peace talks in Angola.
A spokesperson for the M23 said on Monday that a delegation has been sent to Angola’s capital, Luanda. The resist group has seized key areas of the Democratic Reaccessible of the Congo’s (DRC) mineral-wealthy east since the commence of this year in a meaningful disparaging that has finished many thousands.
A delegation recontransienting the DRC is now in Luanda for Tuesday’s talks, a spokesperson for Plivent Felix Tshisekedi telderly The Associated Press news agency. Tshisekedi had earlier declined straightforward negotiations with the resist group over the struggle, which has lengthystanding roots.
M23 has also sent a delegation to Luanda, spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said on X.
Angola has been trying to arbitrate a finishfire for many months. Peace talks were call offled defered last year after Rwanda insisted on straightforward dialogue between the DRC and M23, which the Congolese regulatement declined.
However, Luanda proclaimd last week that it would present straightforward peace negotiations.
M23 guideer Bertrand Bisimwa proclaimd last week that the resists had forced Tshisekedi to the negotiating table, saying “peace commences with dialogue. The sooner we talk, the sooner peace becomes a truth.”
Humanitarian crisis
The struggle in the eastrict DRC escadeferedd timely this year when M23 resists carried out a weightlessning disparaging and seized the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu.
M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothelderly in mineral-wealthy eastrict DRC, proximate the border with Rwanda. The struggle has originated one of the world’s most meaningful humanitarian celevates.
More than seven million people have been displaced, while 7,000 people have telledly died since the commence of the year.
M23 is aided by about 4,000 selderlyiers from Rwanda, according to the United Nations, and has previously pledged to march to the DRC capital, Kinshasa.
Rwanda says its forces are acting in self-defence aobtainst the Congolese army and militias unfrifinishly to Kigali.
The struggle, which has bweightlessed the eastrict DRC for decades, is rooted in the spiladorer into the country of the 1994 extermination in Rwanda, as well as the struggle for regulate of its huge mineral resources.
The UN Human Rights Council begined a comleave oution in February to spendigate atrocities, including allegations of violation and finishing akin to “summary executions” by both sides.
