Africa-Press – Angola. The pacification process in the Great Lakes Region and the tension between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo led, Monday (31), the Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs and special envoy of President João Lourenço to be received by the Rwandan Head of State Paul Kagame in Kigali.
Following the mission as special envoy of the Angolan Head of State and acting president of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), Téte António, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was in Kigali, where he was received in the early afternoon yesterday, 31 October, by Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.
During the meeting, the parties reviewed the tense atmosphere prevailing in relations between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, marked by incidents on the common border that led to the expulsion of Vincent Karega, Rwanda’s ambassador to Kinshasa.
At the audience, Minister Téte António was accompanied by General José Luís Caetano Higino de Sousa “Zé Grande”, director general of the External Intelligence Services (SIE), by Ambassador Miguel César Domingos Bembe, director for Africa, the Middle East and Regional Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Eduardo Octávio, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Angola to the Republic of Rwanda.
Téte António’s trip to Kinshasa and Kigali is part of the Angolan mediation of the dispute between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
João Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola, reiterated, on 24 October, at the 8th edition of the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa, his commitment to resolving the dispute between the countries concerned.
The current escalation of tension between the DRC and Rwanda is due to the resurgence of the M-23 Group which, in 2012, opposed the Congolese government and generated a violent conflict that forced the displacement of thousands of people in the province of Kivu North.
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