In the sideline of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia, President Kagame joins East African Community (EAC) leaders for a meeting to discuss the Nairobi process and Luanda roadmap to address the security situation in Eastern DRC.
The meeting was chaired by President João Lourenço of Angola and President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi who is the Chairperson of the Summit of EAC Heads of State.
More than 100 armed groups operate in eastern DRC, an unsettled region where conflict has raged for decades but has escalated in recent months.
The DRC and its president, Felix Tshisekedi, accuse Rwanda of supporting M23, the main rebel group battling the Congolese army in eastern DRC.
Kigali has repeatedly denied the allegations, accusing the DRC and its army of backing the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Congo-based mainly Hutu rebel group that includes some fighters who were involved in the genocide against Tutsi in 1994 in Rwanda. Rwanda has in the past also accused the DRC of violating Kigali’s territorial integrity. (End).