{"id":54664,"date":"2025-06-26T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/obasanjo-continues-regional-peace-talks-in-kinshasa-after-kigali-stop\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:26:40","slug":"obasanjo-continues-regional-peace-talks-in-kinshasa-after-kigali-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/obasanjo-continues-regional-peace-talks-in-kinshasa-after-kigali-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo continues regional peace talks in Kinshasa after Kigali stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obasanjo, who co-chairs the Panel of Facilitators for the eastern DRC peace process alongside former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, was appointed in March during a joint summit of heads of state from the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as part of a five-member team of former African leaders tasked with steering dialogue in the region.<\/p>\n

During his meeting with President Tshisekedi, Obasanjo reaffirmed his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to the prolonged armed conflict in eastern DRC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussions I had with my two brothers from Rwanda and the DRC are on the right track,” Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n

His remarks came after a high-level meeting with President Kagame in Kigali a day earlier. <\/p>\n

Obasanjo and his team of facilitators are working to mediate between the Congolese government and armed groups, including the AFC-M23 rebels. <\/p>\n

The team’s mandate includes promoting direct dialogue, coordinating international peace efforts, and ensuring the implementation of measures such as the disbandment of the FDLR militia linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The FDLR continues to collaborate with the Kinshasa administration, a situation that has contributed to ongoing tensions with Kigali.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo is expected to proceed to Lom\u00e9, Togo, where he will report to Faure Gnassingb\u00e9, who was appointed by the African Union as an additional mediator in the Rwanda\u2013DRC conflict. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a mediator named by the African Union, Faure Gnassingb\u00e9, President of the Togolese Council of Ministers. I will travel to Lom\u00e9 to present my report and consider what needs to be done to achieve lasting peace in the region,\u201d Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n

Parallel to the efforts of African mediators, international actors, including Qatar and the United States have been supporting complementary peace initiatives.<\/p>\n

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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has continued his regional mediation efforts aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), meeting with President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa on Wednesday, June 25, shortly after holding talks with President Paul Kagame in Kigali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000089851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089851,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bitmap_1200_nocrop_1_1_20250626072652341575_guuue7fx0aajwsunew.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}