{"id":6488,"date":"2025-03-12T02:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:03:44","slug":"angola-to-act-as-mediator-in-peace-talks-between-congo-and-m23-rebels-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/03\/12\/angola-to-act-as-mediator-in-peace-talks-between-congo-and-m23-rebels-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola to act as Mediator in peace talks between Congo and M23 Rebels | AP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angola-congo-peace-868fe4bd581e09992a4dec4d4c082bc6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past Tuesday, Angola announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the rebel group M23, who is backed by Rwanda. Felix Tshisekedi, president of Congo, was in Angola to discuss the possible peace negotiation. Angola will then reach out to establish connection with the Congolese government and the M23 rebels directly in the near future. This has come as previously M23 has been excluded from peace talks as Angola has gone straight to Rwanda who backs the M23 Rebels. M23 is one of many armed rebel groups looking for a foothold and stock within the mineral-rich east Congo which shares a border with Rwanda. This conflict has been labeled on of the worlds largest and significant humanitarian crises with more than 7 million people being displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conflict within the DRC has been happening since 1996 when the first fighting between the Hutus and the Tutsis occurred after the Rwandan Genocide. There has been multiple attempts to stop this conflict and bring it to an end. Perhaps these peace talks mediated by Angola can help this situation, but I doubt they will as this conflict has perpetuated for years. This portion of Sub-Saharan Africa, the DRC, has been war torn for a while, and the world has basically stood by and watched as it has become “old news”. Any change for the better in this region is most definitely welcome. Will it be effective in stopping the conflict? Most likely not. However any steps in the right direction, is a step in the right direction. The M23 Rebel group may respond to Angola’s position as mediator negatively as they have been overlooked in favor of Rwanda – who backs the M23 group – in recent negotiations. M23 may not even come to the table as they don’t have to. Congo desperately needs these talks to be successful to possibly halt the fighting in the DRC that has ravaged it for decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This non-international armed conflict between the Congo and the Rwandan backed M23 Rebels is over resource claims and territorial claims. This internal threat within the DRC comes from this rebel group who seek control over the rich mineral resources of the region. This is a high level threat as many people have been killed in fighting, and millions displaced due to war. A large scale military response is needed to stop this conflict, however no countries want to step in to assume control that may lead them to be tied up in the region indefinitely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angola-congo-peace-868fe4bd581e09992a4dec4d4c082bc6 This past Tuesday, Angola announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the rebel group M23, who is backed by Rwanda. Felix Tshisekedi, president of Congo, was in Angola to discuss the possible peace negotiation. Angola will then reach out to establish connection with the Congolese government and the M23 rebels… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}