Senegal Dhaka (AP) – Angola announced on Tuesday plans to serve as a mediator for the conflict between the Congo-backed rebel group M23, M23, a rebel group supported by Congo and Rwanda.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi discusses a potential peace process in Angola. According to the press release, Angola will begin ties with the Congolese government and the M23 rebels and conduct direct negotiations in the coming days.
The news comes after several cancelled peace talks held in Angola, which previously ruled out M23 but focused on supporters in Rwanda.
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M23 is one of about 100 armed groups who have a foothold in the mineral-rich Congo mineral-rich near the border with Rwanda, a conflict that has created one of the world’s most important humanitarian crises. More than 7 million people were displaced.
According to UN experts, the rebels were supported by about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, and sometimes vowed to over 1,000 miles to the Congolese capital Kinshasa in March.
In a three-week attack on lightning, M23 controlled Goma, the main city in eastern Congo and occupied Bukaf last month.
The UN Human Rights Commission established a committee last month that will investigate atrocities, including “summary executions” of rape allegations and killing both sides.
