Au welcomes Doha talks between Dr. Congo and Rwanda leaders | News

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in Doha on Tuesday.

The African Union (Au) welcomed the talks in the Qatarian capital Doha between the heads of the States of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to fight in the mineral-rich Eastern DRC.

In a statement on Wednesday, Au Chairman Mahamoud Ali Youssouf praised the two countries “for their commitment to dialogue” and asked all parties to “maintain the dynamics”.

The regional corporation “remains determined in its support for African solutions for African challenges … … The Doha discussions that are conducted in the spirit of constructive engagement meet these efforts and complement the ongoing regional mechanisms,” said Yousuf.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in Doha on Tuesday to organize two big cities in the Eastern DRC for the first time since Rwanda.

The leaders submitted an explanation in which an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” was requested, the details of which will be clarified “in the coming days”.

The talks in the Gulf Nation took place after the representatives of the M23 had withdrawn from a planned meeting with DRC officials in Angola on Tuesday after the European Union imposed some of the high -ranking members of the group, including the chairman Bertrand Bissimwa. The EU also sanctioned three Rwandic military commanders and the head of the country’s mining agency, citing M23.

M23 is one of more than 200 armed groups that compete in the eastern DRC around the area, which is rich in precious minerals such as cobalt. The Congolese government, the United States and a group of United Nations’ experts to have supported M23 to have supported M23, a claim that Kigali denies.

After the group had resumed its offensive in the Eastern DRC for more than a decade in 2022, she escalated her Eastern DRC in January.

According to the United Nations, the war in the eastern DRC created one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world with almost 7 million people, including at least 3.5 million children.