The SADC and East Africa (EAC) operation appointed three prominent African leaders to facilitate the efforts made to find a permanent peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where hostilities between government forces and rebels resulted in the death of thousands of people and left millions without shelter.
Diplomatic contracts and consultations between the two blocs witnessed the appointment of former Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta, former leader of Nigeria Olsigon Obasango and former Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailerimiam Disali Bushi as mediators in the conflict that was threatening to depict the Great Lake. Until Sadc Mnangagwa Chairman and other African leaders enter.
The appointment of the three leaders is the culmination of the Joint EAC-SADC summit, and a president who participated in the presidency of President Manangjoa and his Kenyan counterpart William Roto, in Tanzania, which traded the conflict in the east of the Republic of the Congo, some South African countries under the SADC mission in DRC (SamidRC).
In a statement, the joint EAC/SADC said that President Manangua and President Roto continued to participate in the aftermath of the summit held in Tanzania in early this month and that witnessed the appointment of the three leaders as Misreen.
“His Excellency Dr. Emirsson Dambodzo Manangagua, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and SADC, and its president, Dr. William Samawi Roto, President of the Republic of Kenya and head Kenya; Olosigon Obasango, former President of the Republic of Nigeria, is Hailemariam Desalego Boshe, former President of the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia as Eac-SADC (Luanda and Nairobi’s integrated operations) in the eastern Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic, “Read the statement.
“The preparatory meetings of the defense forces (CDFS) were held from EAC’s partner countries in Nairobi on February 21, 2025 to discuss the continuous security situation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tanzania. The meetings came to follow from the Eac-SADC joint summit on February 8, 2025, Tanzania. The meeting, the Defense Experts Working Group held two days of discussions on the situation in the eastern Republic of the Congo. With it, the immediate reopening of the Goma Airport and the advice on other easy interventions.
Yesterday, a joint meeting of the IA-SADC defense forces in Dar Salam, Tanzania, was held before the joint ministerial meeting scheduled for February 28.
The meeting is expected to work on the ceasefire details. Given the developments mentioned above, all actors are urged to monitor the ceasefire announced by the EAC-SADC summit, and the M23 and all other actors are invited to stop any additional progress in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and monitor the immediate ceasefire. The EAC-SADC process is actively seized by the peace process in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, “reads the statement.
The conflict between government forces and armed rebels has escalated M23 during the past months, with armed groups controlling large areas of the Democratic Republic of Democratic, including the regional capital, Goma.
Last Friday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a decision that strongly condemned the continuous attack by the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Herald
