{"id":46506,"date":"2024-10-07T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:19:02","slug":"tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","title":{"rendered":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries held in Paris over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>To protest French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s opening speech for not mentioning the war in eastern Congo, Tshisekedi boycotted the summit&#8217;s heads of state retreat, in an embarrassing moment for French diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Tshisekedi also skipped a luncheon organised by Louise Mushikiwabo, the head of the Organisation of Francophone Countries, on Saturday noon.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming the organisation&#8217;s chief, Mushikiwabo served for years as Rwanda&#8217;s foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>Kinshasa considered the omission of the war in eastern DRC in Macron&#8217;s statement an attempt by Paris to appease Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>Congo and the United Nations say Rwanda&#8217;s troops and M23 rebels are fighting side by side on its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Saturday evening, Macron denied taking sides, saying he encouraged both countries to reach an agreement in talks mediated by Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Before the summit opened, Macron held meetings with the leaders of Rwanda and Congo separately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Mauritius Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries held in Paris over the weekend. To protest French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s opening speech for not mentioning the war in eastern Congo, Tshisekedi boycotted the summit&#8217;s heads of state retreat, in an embarrassing moment for French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[94,4508,4509,241,4507],"class_list":["post-46506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-felix-tshisekedi","tag-m23","tag-mauritius","tag-oif"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Emmanuel Macron\",\"F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi\",\"M23\",\"Mauritius\",\"OIF\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\",\"name\":\"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries - Mauritius\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":538,\"caption\":\"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/\",\"name\":\"Mauritius\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries - Mauritius","description":"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries","og_description":"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","og_site_name":"Mauritius","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":538,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries","datePublished":"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries"},"wordCount":191,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg","keywords":["Emmanuel Macron","F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi","M23","Mauritius","OIF"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries","name":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries - Mauritius","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg","datePublished":"2024-10-07T18:24:30+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-07T19:19:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A walk-out staged by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi nearly overshadowed the summit of French speaking countries he ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2024\/10\/sm_1728315962.22971.jpg","width":1024,"height":538,"caption":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/tshisekedi-walk-out-overshadows-summit-of-francophone-countries#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tshisekedi walk-out overshadows summit of Francophone countries"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/","name":"Mauritius","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}