DRC and M23 rebels to start direct conversations next week, Position Angola says | Conflict news

Spokesman President of the DRC Felix Tshisekedi said at the Reuters News Agency that they received the call of Angola for talks.

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda supported M23 rebels Will he keep talks next week, Angola announced an intermediary.

The statement of Joao Lourenzo representatives on Wednesday announced that the two parties would begin “direct peace negotiations” in the English capital Luanda 18. Martha.

Angola previously acted as a mediator in the eastern conflict of the DRC, who escalated at the end of January when M23 took control of the Strategic East Congo Cit. In February, M23 seized Bukava, the second largest city of East Kong.

Rwanda denies the support of the M23 armed group, which is rooted in the expansion of Rwanda genocide in 1994. in the DRC, and the struggle for control of alternate mineral resources of the DRC.

The President of the DRC Felix Tshisekedi was on Tuesday to discuss the opportunities for Tina Salams on Wednesday Reuters’ news on Wednesday that the government received an Angola’s call, but did not say whether to participate in conversations.

Leader M23 Bertrand Bisimwa wrote that the rebels forced Tshisekedi to the negotiating table, referring to him “by the only civilized option to address the current crisis that lasted for decades.”

The government said at least 7,000 people in the conflict died from January.

Last week, the United Nations refugee agency reported that almost 80,000 people fled the country for armed conflict. From January, 61,000 arrived in the neighboring Burundi, said Deputy Director of the International Agency Protection, Patrick EBA.

The M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that are made to control resources in eastern Congo, home of huge reserves of strategic minerals such as Coltan, Cobalt, copper and lithium.

DRCs, including South Africa, Burundi and Uganda, have troops stationed in eastern Congo, increasing fears of a comprehensive regional war that could be similar to the 1990 Wars of the 1990s.