{"id":47856,"date":"2023-04-14T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/m23-rescinds-promise-to-lay-down-arms-as-drc-turns-back-on-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T07:18:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:18:02","slug":"m23-rescinds-promise-to-lay-down-arms-as-drc-turns-back-on-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/m23-rescinds-promise-to-lay-down-arms-as-drc-turns-back-on-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"M23 rescinds promise to lay down arms as DRC turns back on negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tshisekedi disclosed his position during a press conference with Swiss counterpart Alain Berset. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the M23 fighters are gradually vacating areas under their control and that the rebels will handover weapons at MONUSCO&#8217;s base before being transported to Kindu Town for rehabilitation. <\/p>\n<p>However, Tshisekedi ruled out any dialogues with M23, as the Congolese Parliament had decided against negotiating with armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>In response, M23 spokesman Lawrence Kanyuka took to Twitter to state that &#8220;there will be no cantonment, disarmament, and demobilization&#8221; until there is &#8220;Direct Political Dialogue&#8221; between the rebel group and the Kinshasa Government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, M23 President Bertrand Bisimwa accused Tshisekedi of sabotaging the peace process initiated by the East African Community. <\/p>\n<p>Bisimwa alleged that Tshisekedi&#8217;s refusal to hold talks with M23 and separate the group from armed groups like FDLR went against the EAC&#8217;s resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Tshisekedi also addressed allegations that Rwanda had accused DRC of collaborating with the genocidal group FDLR, stating that the group posed no problems. <\/p>\n<p>However, a UN expert report released last year indicated that FDLR formed a coalition with Congolese Army (FARDC) in attacks against M23. <\/p>\n<p>The report also claimed that the DRC government supplied the group with weapons, ammunition, uniforms, and medicaments.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47336 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ci.jpg\" alt=\"Tshisekedi has said that M23 combatants are set for demobilization.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{M23 rebel group has reneged on its pledge to lay arms down, citing the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s (DRC) rejection of talks with the group. This development follows DRC President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi&#8217;s announcement that his government has no plans to engage in negotiations with M23.}<\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/47856","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=47856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47856"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47856"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}