{"id":47657,"date":"2023-03-07T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/m23-declares-ceases-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:37:14","slug":"m23-declares-ceases-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/m23-declares-ceases-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"M23 declares cease fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement signed by M23 political spokesperson, Lawrence Kanyuka, indicates that the group has taken the decision in fulfillment of outcomes of consultations between M23 and Angolan President, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o in Luanda and the decision taken in different regional summits in Bujumbura, Nairobi and Addis Ababa.  <\/p>\n<p>All the meetings were aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe M23 movement, hereby, declares a ceasefire from this Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 at 12:00 hours to pave the way for the political process to take place,\u201d reads the statement. <\/p>\n<p>M23 has thanked regional leaders and international partners who have made efforts to understand its problems and for endless efforts to restore peace and security in eastern DRC.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the foregoing, the M23 calls on other regional leaders and international partners to spare no effort in contributing to the current initiatives aimed at the restoration of peace and stability in eastern DRC and the region as a whole,\u201d adds the statement.   <\/p>\n<p>M23 has reiterated commitment to peacefully resolve conflict in eastern DRC but highlighted that it \u2018reserves the full right to defend itself once attacked by the DRC Government Coalition of FARDC, FDLR, NYATURA, Mai-Mai, APCLS, PARECO, NDC-R and mercenaries. <\/p>\n<p>The rebel group further stated that it won\u2019t spare any effort to protect the civilian population and their belonging.  <\/p>\n<p>M23 controls large swathes in eastern Congo even though it has already handed over some of captured areas to forces of the East African Community.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46576 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/where.jpg\" alt=\"M23 has declared cease fire.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{M23 rebel group has declared cease fire during a fighting that has been going on with Congolese Army (FARDC) but reserved the right to defend itself against attacks.}  <\/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-47657","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\/47657","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=47657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47657"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47657"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}