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Kinshasa — President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paul Kagame, a counterpart of Rwanda, in Luanda, the capital of Angola, on Wednesday amid tensions over a surge in rebel attacks in eastern Congo. We are planning to start a meeting.
The two neighbors have been honking since the M23 rebel group launched a major attack on the eastern border of Congo at the end of March.
Congo accuses Rwanda of supporting the group. Kigali denies this and accuses Kinshasa of fighting with another armed group trying to seize power in Kigali.
Tshisekedi arrived in Luanda on Tuesday and held a "mini-triple summit" on peace in Congo on Wednesday, the president said in a statement, calling the meeting "the truth." "The moment" was explained.
Congolese Rwandan Ambassador Vincent Kagame said the Reuters turtle had also arrived.
M23 has occupied the most important border crossings with the most sustained attacks since it occupied the territory from 2012 to 2013.
Congolese troops are fighting to expel them from newly acquired positions near Goma, a major city in eastern Congo.
Tens of thousands of people have left their homes due to threats from local militia groups in areas where there has been little rest from conflict since the invasion of Rwanda and neighboring Uganda in 1996. I was chased.
Almost 20 years after the official end of the civil war in Central African countries, 120, despite the billions of dollars spent on one of the United Nations' largest peacekeepers. More than a group of rebels continue to operate in eastern Congo.
President Joan Lorenco of Angola has been appointed by the African Union to mediate negotiations and restore dialogue between the two parties. (Report by Stanis Bujakera, Written by Sophia Christensen, Edited by Hereward Holland and Allison Williams)
