{"id":47066,"date":"2022-11-22T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-drc-to-hold-talks-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:02:11","slug":"rwanda-drc-to-hold-talks-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-drc-to-hold-talks-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, DRC to hold talks in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting was initially scheduled to take place on Monday 21st November 2022 but has been postponed to Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The East African has reported that Angolan President, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o will be  the mediator between both sides. <\/p>\n<p>An official statement by the Government of Angola indicates that the meeting is aimed at de-escalating tensions between the two neighbouring countries generated by the resurgence of the M23 rebel group in an ongoing fighting with Congolese Army. <\/p>\n<p>DRC accuses Rwanda of supporting the rebel group, a claim which Rwanda repeatedly denied but condemned the neighbouring country of working with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).   <\/p>\n<p>FDLR is a terrorist group formed by individuals responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. <\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame; his counterpart of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi and Burundian President \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye who also serves as the current Chairman of the East African Community (EAC) are expected to attend the meeting.  <\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s former President Uhuru Kenyatta, who serves as the EAC facilitator of the Nairobi peace process for DRC, will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tok.jpg\" alt=\"Heads of State from Angola, Rwanda and DRC will meet in Angola on Thursday. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their counterparts from Rwanda are expected to hold talks in Angola on Thursday this week with a view to de-escalate tensions between both countries.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47066"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}