Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, received, this Monday (18), in Cidade Alta, the deputy prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Christophe Lutundula Apala, who was a bearer of a message from Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo.
Upon leaving the meeting, the politician, who came to Luanda as a special envoy, stressed that the meeting served to inform the Angolan statesman, in his capacity as President-in-Office of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), about the reappearance, in that country, of the rebel group M23.
Christophe Lutundula Apala said the group had been presumed dead for four years but had reappeared in recent days, attacking members of the Congolese Armed Forces. He said it is not known where and how it resurfaced in the country. “President Tshisekedi mandated me to give the current situation regarding the new scenario that we are now experiencing in the DRC, to President João Lourenço, for his knowledge”, he stressed.
He referred that the Congolese Armed Forces are making progress in the theater of operations against the rebel group. “Right now, I can say that the Congolese Armed Forces are taking some initiative on the negative forces”, assured the special envoy, for whom it is a battle that could be fought in the “long stretch”.
Socialist International
Yesterday, the President of the Republic received the secretary general of the Socialist International, Luís Ayala. At the end of the meeting, Luís Ayala praised the country’s advances in several areas in recent years, highlighting the role of João Lourenço in this process, which is an example for the African continent.
The Socialist International is an international organization that deals with the dissemination and implementation of democratic socialism, through the union of social democratic, socialist and labor political parties.
Currently, with 160 parties from more than 100 countries around the globe, the organization was founded in 1951 with the name International Workers and Socialists, being one of the largest party organizations in activity.
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