Luanda - The President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, held, in the early afternoon of Wednesday (Aug 07), a telephone conversation with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
According to a note released on the social networks of the Presidency of the Republic, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a ceasefire in the conflict in the east of the country has been in force since last Sunday, was the topic of the conversation, which also extended to other regional matters.
Ceasefire in the DRC
After official talks between delegations from the DRC and Rwanda, under the mediation of Angola, the two countries agreed on Tuesday (30 July), in Luanda, to establish a ceasefire from midnight on 4 August, to be supervised by the reinforced Ad-Hoc Verification Mechanism.
It aims to put an end to the actions of the M23 rebels, who launched an offensive in the province, North Kivu, in the rich east of the DRC, in late 2021 and have since seized large swaths of territory.
The conflict has killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands of others. SC/DOJ
