{"id":52319,"date":"2024-12-18T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T10:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/angola-s-foreign-minister-expected-in-kigali-to-boost-peace-efforts-for-eastern\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:21:26","slug":"angola-s-foreign-minister-expected-in-kigali-to-boost-peace-efforts-for-eastern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/angola-s-foreign-minister-expected-in-kigali-to-boost-peace-efforts-for-eastern\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola\u2019s Foreign Minister expected in Kigali to boost peace efforts for Eastern DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ant\u00f3nio, who is visiting as a special envoy of Angola’s President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, appointed by the African Union to mediate between Rwanda and the DRC, will hold talks with Rwandan officials.<\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe, confirmed the visit, stating, \u201cHe will arrive in the afternoon as a special envoy for the Luanda Dialogue mediator, President Louren\u00e7o of Angola.\u201d<\/p>\n

The visit follows the postponement of a meeting initially scheduled for December 15, 2024, in Luanda, which was set to bring together President Louren\u00e7o, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and DRC President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi.<\/p>\n

This decision came after DRC representatives at the ministerial level refused to engage in dialogue with the M23 armed group, despite previous commitments under the \u201cNairobi Process\u201d led by former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n

During his Kigali visit, Minister Ant\u00f3nio is expected to discuss resolving the tensions between Rwanda and the DRC through the ongoing Luanda Dialogue mediated by President Louren\u00e7o since 2022.<\/p>\n

In a statement earlier this week, President Louren\u00e7o expressed optimism that a summit in Luanda with Presidents Kagame and Tshisekedi would eventually lead to a lasting peace agreement.<\/p>\n

However, the DRC\u2019s withdrawal from the planned discussions has undermined previous progress, including agreements to dismantle the FDLR armed group and to lift border restrictions imposed by Rwanda.<\/p>\n

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Angola remains committed to mediating peace efforts in eastern DRC and the broader region, despite challenges. Minister Ant\u00f3nio noted that substantial agreement had been reached, with 99% of the framework for peace finalized, but a last-minute request for postponement stalled the process.<\/p>\n

Nduhungirehe highlighted that Angola had informed Rwanda on November 30, 2024, that DRC had agreed to negotiate with M23 under the Nairobi Process, only for DRC to backtrack later.<\/p>\n

President Louren\u00e7o has since engaged Tshisekedi and Uhuru Kenyatta in further discussions on how to advance talks between the DRC government and armed groups, particularly the M23.<\/p>\n

Angola continues to urge all parties to prioritize the well-being of citizens and work toward a lasting resolution to the conflict that has plagued eastern DRC for over three decades.<\/p>\n

The DRC government has reiterated its refusal to negotiate with the M23, labeling the group as a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, M23 insists that resolutions impacting them are invalid without their direct involvement in the discussions.<\/p>\n

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Today December 18, 2024, Angola’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tete Ant\u00f3nio, is expected in Kigali for discussions aimed at achieving sustainable peace and security in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000079008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000079008,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-162.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52319","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000079008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52319"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52319"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}