{"id":53407,"date":"2025-03-15T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/angolan-president-sets-deadline-to-halt-fighting-in-the-drc\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:46:54","slug":"angolan-president-sets-deadline-to-halt-fighting-in-the-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/angolan-president-sets-deadline-to-halt-fighting-in-the-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Angolan President sets deadline to halt fighting in the DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a statement from his office, President Louren\u00e7o emphasized that ending hostilities would create a favorable environment for the upcoming peace talks between representatives of the DRC government and the M23 armed group, scheduled for March 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His Excellency Jo\u00e3o Manuel Gon\u00e7alves Louren\u00e7o, President of the Republic of Angola and Chairperson of the African Union, acting as a mediator in the peace negotiations, has called on all warring parties to cease fighting in eastern DRC from midnight on March 16, 2025,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The Angolan leader further stressed that the ceasefire must include an end to violence against civilians and a halt to territorial advances.<\/p>\n<p>Louren\u00e7o\u2019s intervention follows a meeting with DRC President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi on March 11, 2025, where efforts to restore peace in the region were discussed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-83659 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/loure_ths-85dec.jpg\" alt=\"Louren\u00e7o\u2019s intervention follows a meeting with DRC President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi on March 11, 2025, where efforts to restore peace in the region were discussed.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angolan President and African Union (AU) Chairperson Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o has called for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), effective from March 16, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000083658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53407","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":2000083658,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-429.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53407","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=53407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53407"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53407"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}