On Monday, fighting between M23 rebels and government troops in eastern DRC’s North Kivu region continued close to the strategically important city of Goma.
Uhuru Kenyatta, a former president of Kenya and EAC mediator, arrived in Kinshasa on Sunday in preparation for peace negotiations scheduled on November 21.
Uhuru Kenyatta, a former Kenyan president and the East African Community’s facilitator of the peace process in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said, “The message that we have today is that all groups who currently bear arms should lay those arms down and choose the path of peace through dialogue because there is nothing that can be gained through the barrel of a gun.”
The Rwandan government denies helping the rebels, a charge that the Congolese government leveled.
“Put the firearms away and participate in the political process. To the neighborhood associations. It essentially tells foreign base groups that the DRC is no longer the scene of conflicts originating in that nation “, the former President said.
Numerous armed organizations still operate in the Eastern DRC as a result of two brutal regional conflicts that took place there in the 1990s.
