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Africa Subsaharan

DRC and M23 sign framework peace deal to end fighting in eastern Congo

2025-11-17

[AFRICANEWS] The Democratic Republic of the Congo

...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
and the M23 rebel group have signed a framework peace deal aimed in the at ending fighting in eastern Congo.

The signing took place at a ceremony in the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i capital Doha on Saturday.

It's the latest of several documents signed in recent months as part of US- and Qatar-backed efforts to end the decades-long conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year.

Qatar's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi said that the agreement sets the parties on the path towards peace.

"Peace cannot be enforced by force, but is built through confidence, mutual respect and sincere commitment," he said.
Violence continues

US representatives said the framework covers eight protocols and negotiations are ongoing on how to implement six of them.

Qatar has been hosting talks between the two sides since April. In July, they agreed to a declaration of principles and in October reached a deal on the monitoring of an eventual ceasefire.

The Trump administration has led mediation efforts between Rwanda — which is accused of backing M23 — and Congo, leading to the signing of a peace deal between the two countries in June.

In Congo, the violence has continued through the various diplomatic processes in Washington and Doha. On Friday, local officials reported as many as 28 people killed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-allied Death Eaters in eastern North Kivu province.

In January, M23 fighters seized eastern Congo's largest city Goma and went on to make gains across North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.

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