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Dakar, Senegal – The Congo government will hold peace talks next week in Angola with Rwanda supported by Rwanda M23 rebellious group This captured the key areas of eastern Eastern Minerals in Congo, the Mediator Angola announced on Wednesday.

A statement by the office of the Angolan president João Lourenço said that the parties would begin “directed peace negotiations” in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

Angola acted as a mediator in the Conflict in eastern CongoWho degenerated at the end of January when the rebels supported by Rwanda advanced and took control of the strategic city of Goma from eastern Congo. In February, M23 seized BukavuThe second largest city in the East Congo.

President of Congo Felix Tshisekedi was in Angola on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of peace talks.

“Following the diligence led by Angolan mediation in the conflict affecting the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Government of the Republic of Angola is public that the delegations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 will begin direct peace negotiations, on March 18, in the city of Luanda,” the Lourenço office said on Wednesday.

The Congolese government did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

“We recognize and look forward to the implementation of this Angolan mediation initiative,” said Tina Salama, spokesperson for Tshisekedi.

The announcement comes after several canceled The peace talks organized by Angola who had previously excluded M23 and rather focused on their Rwandan donors.

Peace discussions between Congo and Rwanda were unexpectedly canceled In December after Rwanda, the signing of a conditional peace agreement to a direct dialogue between the Congo and the M23 rebels, which the Congo refused.

The M23 is one of some 100 armed groups that have retaliated from a foot in the East Congo rich in minerals near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the most important humanitarian crises in the world. More than 7 million people have been moved.

The rebels are supported by around 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts, and have sometimes promised to walk to the Congo capital, Kinshasa, more than 1,000 miles from there.

The United Nations Human Rights Council last month launched a commission to investigate atrocitiesIncluding allegations of rape and killing similar to “summary executions” by both sides.

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Dakar, Senegal – The Congo government will hold peace talks next week in Angola with Rwanda supported by Rwanda M23 rebellious group This captured the key areas of eastern Eastern Minerals in Congo, the Mediator Angola announced on Wednesday.

A statement by the office of the Angolan president João Lourenço said that the parties would begin “directed peace negotiations” in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

Angola acted as a mediator in the Conflict in eastern CongoWho degenerated at the end of January when the rebels supported by Rwanda advanced and took control of the strategic city of Goma from eastern Congo. In February, M23 seized BukavuThe second largest city in the East Congo.

President of Congo Felix Tshisekedi was in Angola on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of peace talks.

“Following the diligence led by Angolan mediation in the conflict affecting the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Government of the Republic of Angola is public that the delegations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 will begin direct peace negotiations, on March 18, in the city of Luanda,” the Lourenço office said on Wednesday.

The Congolese government did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

“We recognize and look forward to the implementation of this Angolan mediation initiative,” said Tina Salama, spokesperson for Tshisekedi.

The announcement comes after several canceled The peace talks organized by Angola who had previously excluded M23 and rather focused on their Rwandan donors.

Peace discussions between Congo and Rwanda were unexpectedly canceled In December after Rwanda, the signing of a conditional peace agreement to a direct dialogue between the Congo and the M23 rebels, which the Congo refused.

The M23 is one of some 100 armed groups that have retaliated from a foot in the East Congo rich in minerals near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the most important humanitarian crises in the world. More than 7 million people have been moved.

The rebels are supported by around 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts, and have sometimes promised to walk to the Congo capital, Kinshasa, more than 1,000 miles from there.

The United Nations Human Rights Council last month launched a commission to investigate atrocitiesIncluding allegations of rape and killing similar to “summary executions” by both sides.

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Dakar, Senegal – The Congo government will hold peace talks next week in Angola with Rwanda supported by Rwanda M23 rebellious group This captured the key areas of eastern Eastern Minerals in Congo, the Mediator Angola announced on Wednesday.

A statement by the office of the Angolan president João Lourenço said that the parties would begin “directed peace negotiations” in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

Angola acted as a mediator in the Conflict in eastern CongoWho degenerated at the end of January when the rebels supported by Rwanda advanced and took control of the strategic city of Goma from eastern Congo. In February, M23 seized BukavuThe second largest city in the East Congo.

President of Congo Felix Tshisekedi was in Angola on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of peace talks.

“Following the diligence led by Angolan mediation in the conflict affecting the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Government of the Republic of Angola is public that the delegations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 will begin direct peace negotiations, on March 18, in the city of Luanda,” the Lourenço office said on Wednesday.

The Congolese government did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

“We recognize and look forward to the implementation of this Angolan mediation initiative,” said Tina Salama, spokesperson for Tshisekedi.

The announcement comes after several canceled The peace talks organized by Angola who had previously excluded M23 and rather focused on their Rwandan donors.

Peace discussions between Congo and Rwanda were unexpectedly canceled In December after Rwanda, the signing of a conditional peace agreement to a direct dialogue between the Congo and the M23 rebels, which the Congo refused.

The M23 is one of some 100 armed groups that have retaliated from a foot in the East Congo rich in minerals near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the most important humanitarian crises in the world. More than 7 million people have been moved.

The rebels are supported by around 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts, and have sometimes promised to walk to the Congo capital, Kinshasa, more than 1,000 miles from there.

The United Nations Human Rights Council last month launched a commission to investigate atrocitiesIncluding allegations of rape and killing similar to “summary executions” by both sides.

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