CIRGL leaders gathered behind closed doors

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CIRGL leaders gathered behind closed doors
CIRGL leaders gathered behind closed doors

Africa-Press – Angola. After officially opening the Extraordinary Summit of the leaders of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), the Angolan President, João Lourenço, is guiding the work, behind closed doors, to analyze the peace process, stability and security in eastern DRC and Sudan.

The meeting, in the Angolan capital, will be attended by Heads of State or their representatives from the 12 member countries of the CIRGL, namely Angola, Burundi, the Central African and Democratic Republics of Congo, as well as Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan , South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.

Also participating in the meeting are Moussa Faki Mahamat, President of the African Union Commission, Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region and senior officials from different organizations and regional mechanisms.

The President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, is currently the acting leader of the CIRGL.

The two countries, DRC and Sudan, are currently experiencing armed conflicts in their territories, motivated by political differences and which have claimed human victims and created an undetermined number of refugees to neighboring countries.

The event takes place under the motto “For a stable Great Lakes region, towards sustainable development”.

Created in 1994, after the political and military conflicts that marked the Great Lakes Region in the early 1990s, the CIRGL brings together Angola, Burundi, the Central African and Democratic Republics of Congo, as well as Congo, Kenya, Uganda , Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.

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