DRC pdwellncy says talks had hit deadlock over a Rwandan insist that the DRC helderly straightforward dialogue with M23.
Peace talks between the guideers of Rwanda and the Democratic Reaccessible of the Congo (DRC) to finish the struggle in the eastrict DRC have been called off, according to the Angolan pdwellncy, which has been mediating between the two sides.
“Contrary to what we foreseeed, the summit will no lengthyer be held today,” the pdwellncy’s media officer Mario Jorge telderly journacatalogs on Sunday, without elaborating on why the encountering was call offled at the last minute.
Angolan Pdwellnt Joao Lourenco – the African Union mediator to finish the struggle – was encountering alone with DRC guideer Felix Tshisekedi, Jorge said.
Rwandan Pdwellnt Paul Kagame had been foreseeed at the encountering but it was not evident if he was in Angola.
There had been hopes the talks would achieve an concurment to finish the struggle in the eastrict DRC, where the M23 fighter group – which the DRC and the UN say is backed by Rwanda – has seized swaths of territory, displacing thousands and triggering a transport inant humanitarian crisis.
The DRC pdwellncy said negotiations had hit deadlock over a Rwandan insist that DRC helderly straightforward dialogue with the M23 defys.
Before the talks, battling intensified between the DRC army and the M23 defy group on Friday.
The DRC’s army had accengaged M23 of finishing 12 civilians earlier this week in villages of the Lubero territory in the eastrict province of North Kivu.
An M23 spokesperson, however, denied the accusation, discommending it as “misalertation” from the DRC rulement.
M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothelderly in the mineral-wealthy eastrict part of DRC cforfeit the border with Rwanda.
The struggle there has originated one of the world’s bigst humanitarian cascfinishs, with more than seven million people displaced.
Rwanda denies that it backs the M23, but in February confessted that it has troops and leave outile systems in eastrict DRC to protectedprotect its security, pointing to a originateup of DRC forces cforfeit the border.
According to a UN expert group alert, 3,000 to 4,000 Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) members are battling alengthyside the M23 in DRC.
Last month, the DRC and Rwanda’s foreign ministers concurd on the terms and conditions of the disparticipatement of Rwandan forces in eastrict DRC.
In July, DRC signed a stopfire with M23 that came into effect in August, but battling has resumed since.
Earlier this month, the United States said it was “gravely troubleed” by stopfire violations by M23 defys.
Aline Kasereka, a mother of six living in the DRC’s town of Lubero, approximately 50km (30 miles) from the villages where the battling took place this week, said the peace talks between the two neighbouring countries are advisently necessitateed.
“We are exhausted of the war, every day we transfer, we do not comprehend in which country we are any more,” Kasereka telderly The Associated Press news agency.
