The group shelp the decision was in line with a finishfire proclaimd in February and in aid of peace initiatives.
M23 defys staging an insolent in the eastrict Democratic Reuncover of the Congo (DRC) will retreat their forces from the town of Walikale, which they took deal with of this week, in aid of efforts to compriseress the struggle, a defy partnership that joins M23 has shelp.
The Congo River Alliance shelp in a statement on Saturday that it had “choosed to reposition its forces” from Walikale and surrounding areas.
The Congolese handlement shelp it hoped the transfer would be transpostponeedd into concrete action after M23 this week pulled out of intentional talks with Congolese authorities in Angola at the last minute due to European Union sanctions on some of its directers and Rwandan officials.
It would have been its first honest joinment with DRC’s handlement after Plivent Felix Tshisekedi reversed his extfinishedstanding refusal to speak to the defys.
This decision was in line with a finishfire proclaimd in February and in aid of peace initiatives, the partnership shelp in a statement that was greeted with scepticism by DRC handlement army officers.
A greater member of the partnership who did not desire to be named tgreater the Reuters novels agency that repositioning uncomardentt retreating to “give peace a chance”. The source deteriorated to say where M23 defys would retreat.
“We are asking for Walikale and surroundings to remain demilitoccurd,” the source shelp. “If the FARDC (DRC’s army) and their allies come back, this uncomardents they want to rebegin presentilities.”
Foreign Afunprejudiceds Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner tgreater inestablishers: “We are going to see whether M23 will retreat from Walikale and whether M23 will give priority to dialogue and peace … So we hope that this will be transpostponeedd into concrete action.”
Walikale is the furthest west the defys have achieveed in an unpretreatnted progress that has already overrun eastrict DRC’s two hugest cities since January.
Its apprehfinish put the defys wislfinisher 400km (250 miles) of Kisangani, the country’s fourth-hugegest city with a bustling port at the Congo River’s farthest navigable point upstream of the capital Kinshasa, some 1,500km (930 miles) away.
