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Congo-Kinshasa: Now the East African Community Tackles the Eastern DRC's Rebels
ISS, 6 May 2022
Weeks after admitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the EAC has launched peace negotiations with DRC rebels. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Getting Responsible - Rules of Engagement in the Proxy War for Economic Access
The Sentry, 28 April 2022
When United States (US) Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh landed in Kinshasa recently to engage the Congolese government about access to minerals, his visit could be… Read more »
Will the East African Gambit For Peace in DR Congo Succeed?
Earlier in May, 2022 - after a false start at the end of April, 2022 - representatives of some 23 of the eastern DRC's countless armed rebel groups concluded five days of negotiations with the government in Nairobi. This was to discuss the terms and conditions of their laying down of arms.
The peace talks, under the aegis of Kenya, were backed up by a threat of force against those who didn't surrender. At an EAC (East African Community) summit days before, the presidents of Kenya, the DR Congo, Burundi and Uganda, and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta, resolved to form an EAC intervention force to track down groups who are continuing to fight.
Officials didn't release a list of militia groups who were invited, or of those who had participated, but unofficial lists circulating suggest that most of the main groups were absent.
According to local media reports, the invitation was extended only to local DR Congo groups, while foreign groups had been warned to go home or face elimination by the proposed EAC force.
The new peace initiative seems to be the outcome of the DR Congo joining the EAC earlier in April, 2022.
InFocus
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This past week, about 30 delegations representing armed groups from DR Congo's Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu states, as well as the DR Congo government,Read more »
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After a ten-year lull, M23 rebels earlier this month resumed their activities in Eastern DRC by launching attacks that saw several areas captured. In March 2022 it was ... Read more »
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Clashes along the DR Congo's eastern border have sent thousands of people fleeing into Uganda. Natukunda Primrose, Kisoro district manager for the Ugandan Red Cross, says the ... Read more »
Families shelter at a church that is being used as a temporary site for internally displaced people in Ituri, DR Congo (file photo).
