{"id":55492,"date":"2025-09-04T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/afc-m23-and-kabila-delegates-join-thabo-mbeki-led-peace-talks-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:51:16","slug":"afc-m23-and-kabila-delegates-join-thabo-mbeki-led-peace-talks-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/afc-m23-and-kabila-delegates-join-thabo-mbeki-led-peace-talks-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC\/M23 and Kabila delegates join Thabo Mbeki-led peace talks in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC\/M23 leader Corneille Nangaa recently told reporters he would send a large delegation to the discussions aimed at finding solutions to the DRC\u2019s ongoing crisis. <\/p>\n

As promised, a team led by AFC\/M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka has already arrived in South Africa. Before joining the talks, the group also attended an international peace and security conference hosted by the Mbeki Foundation.<\/p>\n

Kabila, who was among those invited, dispatched senior allies including his former chief of staff N\u00e9h\u00e9mie Mwilanya, former Kinshasa governor Andre Kimbuta, former senator Francine Muyumba, and former deputy budget minister F\u00e9lix Momat Kitenge.<\/p>\n

Mbeki’s foundation had extended invitations to a broad range of participants, including members of President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi\u2019s government and opposition figures.<\/p>\n

However, Tshisekedi declined the Mbeki Foundation\u2019s invitation, insisting that Congolese do not need a mediator to resolve their own political challenges. He argued that peace talks organised abroad are merely a distraction. Government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya reinforced that stance, saying no official from Kinshasa would attend, claiming that Mbeki did not fully understand the country\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

Speaking to South African media on September 4, Kanyuka criticised Tshisekedi\u2019s position, saying it undermined other peace efforts supported by the United States and Qatar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the map very well. Washington is not in the DRC, Doha is not in the DRC\u2014they are foreign powers,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy does he say he doesn\u2019t want to be distracted by external talks? By closing the door to all dialogue, he is choosing war. That has been his position from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thabo Mbeki, who served as South Africa\u2019s president from 1999 to 2008, has long taken an interest in the DRC and is considered one of the African leaders most familiar with its conflicts.<\/p>\n

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Representatives of the AFC\/M23 rebel coalition, along with envoys of former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Joseph Kabila, have travelled to South Africa for peace talks organised by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000093844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55492","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":2000093844,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mbeki-4-25e0a.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55492","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=55492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55492"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55492"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}