Uhuru pulls out of DRC peace meeting in Qatar after Ruto scaled down his security
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Uhuru-Ruto acrimony led to the cancellation DRC peace meeting in Qatar after the former president pulled out of the process
Uhuru-Ruto acrimony led to the cancellation DRC peace meeting in Qatar after the former president pulled out of the process.
The animosity between the President and Uhuru recently played out on the international stage, leading to the cancellation of a high-profile meeting involving Heads of State in Qatar.
The high-level meeting planned for January 23 to sign a peace deal between wrangling Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo was called off at the last minute.
Sources familiar with the intrigues said Uhuru canceled his trip after his delegation was “brutally cut down” by top government bureaucrats.
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta had to gather the rebel groups and the DRC delegation in Qatar for continued talks.
However, he pulled out after his security was scaled down by President William Ruto.
However, in an interview with this publication, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua said the meeting was canceled because the “DRC team was unable to attend due to other commitments.
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According to an international correspondent in the city, tens of thousands protested on Monday in Goma, the economic center of eastern DR Congo, against what they believed to be inactivity by an East African armed force against the M23 rebel uprising.
To oppose the EAC force, protesters set up roadblocks around Goma on Monday. Some of the protesters even looted stores and set tires on fire.
Sankara Bin Kartumwa of the activist organization Lucha stated, “The regional force of the EAC came to fight, but that is not what we see.”
At a conference held on Saturday in Burundi, the EAC leadership demanded an abrupt end to hostilities in eastern DRC.
The Congolese government said that the EAC’s military force had challenges but emphasized that it was mandated to carry out aggressive missions.
The mineral-rich eastern parts of the DRC have been home to dozens of rebel factions for generations; many of them are the result of conflicts that erupted in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
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