Civil wars; The African Union and East African Community have simply called upon the conflicting parties between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group to welcome peace talks.
Giving roadmaps for a new chapter, the peace talk showed its beginning on Monday, October 31, 2022, a day after the Democratic Republic of Congo expelled Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karega from its territory.
Purely followed, Senegalese President Macky Sall who is the African Union chairperson together with Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat magnificently expressed their deep concern about the ongoing civil wars in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged “all stakeholders to engage in a constructive dialogue.
Also, they said that the dialogue should be within the framework of the existing African Union peace, security, and cooperation framework for the DRC and the region at large.
Giving a perspective view, the city of Goma, which is the most populated in North Kivu, risks experiencing a military confrontation.
Furthermore, the possibility of an escalation in the most populated parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could hinder the stability of the entire region.
On the other hand, former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, the African Union-Kenya peace envoy, and facilitator of the East African Community-led Nairobi process made a call on all conflicting parties to recognize that there is no military solution to recognize and embrace a peaceful means to the settlement.
Although the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan diplomatic relations are breaking in silence. Thus, both countries said that they are fully committed to the Luanda process, where they had already begun negotiations in search of peace, under the aegis of Angolan President João fourenço, who had been mandated by the African Union to spearhead the process.
In addition, the Angolan leader sent an emissary to the DRC President Félix Tshisekedi on Sunday to discuss the situation in eastern Congo.
Simplifying the process, the Angolan Minister of External Relations Tete Antonio delivered Lourenço’s message to President Tshisekedi that his Angolan counterpart intends to continue his efforts to find a peaceful outcome to the dispute between Kinshasa and Kigali through the application of the Luanda roadmap skills established in July 2022, the communication office of the Congolese head of state reported.
Finally, the heads of state in the sub-region have significantly insisted on the need to resume negotiations within the framework of the ICGLR, the Nairobi process, and the Luanda process.
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