22 Mar 2025 · A UN group of experts had on Friday announced that their officials are set to hold a discussion with M23 leaders in Goma city between March 23 to 27, 2025.
A UN group of experts had on Friday announced that their officials are set to hold a discussion with M23 leaders in Goma city between March 23 to 27, 2025.
On Wednesday night, M23 rebels released a statement signed by their coordinator, Corneille Nangaa Yobeuo, appointing Robert Mugisha as the overall head of the Finance Department.
At the meeting that came on the day Tshisekedi and M23 rebels were scheduled to meet in Angola, Luanda, before the latter pulled out, the two men "reaffirmed their commitment" to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and agreed to continue dialogue for lasting peace, according to a joint statement.
The project, EAC4Nature, will run from January 2025 to June 2028 with a total funding of 8 million euros (5.5 million Euros from BMZ and 2. 5 million Euros from the EU).
"Successive sanctions imposed on our members, including those enacted on the eve of the Luanda discussions, severely undermine direct dialogue and make any progress impossible," said M23.
"Rwanda’s decision has been taken after careful consideration of several factors, all linked with Belgium’s pitiful attempts to sustain its neocolonial delusions," says a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Wanda.
The Tumaini Peace Initiative, launched in May 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, is a high-level mediation effort aimed at resolving the conflict in South Sudan by engaging holdout groups that have not signed the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.
