Indeed, this Thursday, January 13, 2025, Rwandan President Paul Kagame received a delegation of the Catholic and Protestant Churches of the DRC as part of their consultations for a “social pact for peace and well-living together announced the conference National Episcopal of Congo(Cenco) in Kinshasa.
This meeting is part of a series of exchanges initiated by CENCO and the Church of Christ in Congo (ECC) to try to lay the foundations for a regional dialogue in favor of peace in the east of the DRC and in the Great Lakes region.
The religious specify that their role is to “mark the way” by proposing a framework for dialogue, while leaving the stakeholders to define the content and the place of the discussions. Their objective goes beyond the cessation of hostilities: they say they want to “lay the foundations of lasting peace” and promote living together in the DRC and in the whole region of the Great Lakes
Before their arrival in Rwanda, the Congolese religious had already met several political figures in Kinshasa, notably President Félix Tshisekedi, the president of the National Assembly Vital Kamerhe and the opponent Martin Fayulu. Wednesday, February 12, they also exchanged with Corneille Nangaa, AFC/m23 coordinator, in Goma, where they had pleaded for an immediate ceasefire, the reopening of the airport and the port of Goma, as well as The establishment of a humanitarian corridor to relieve the population.
The meeting between the Congolese delegation and Paul Kagame intervenes while the heads of state of the EAC and the SADC, gathered on February 8 in Dar Es Salaam, asked for an “immediate ceasefire” in the DRC. These two regional blocks, which so far led distinct mediations, have agreed on a common position in the face of the persistent security crisis in the Congolese East.
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