{"id":27655,"date":"2022-11-25T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27655"},"modified":"2022-11-25T05:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T05:57:54","slug":"dr-congo-rebels-not-concerned-by-ceasefire-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/25\/dr-congo-rebels-not-concerned-by-ceasefire-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo rebels &#8216;not concerned&#8217; by ceasefire deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have said that a ceasefire supposed to take hold on Friday evening &#8220;does not concern&#8221; the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They called on the DR Congo government for direct dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rebels&#8217; spokesman, Lawrence Kanyuka, said that as they had no representatives at Wednesday&#8217;s mini-summit in the Angolan capital Luanda, they were not included in the accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The signatories &#8211; from Rwanda, the DR Congo, Angola and Burundi &#8211; said that under the cessation of hostilities, if the rebels did not withdraw from the area an East African regional force would attack their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinshasa has refused to engage with the M23, calling them terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DR Congo accuses Rwanda of backing the rebels, who have been advancing on the regional capital, Goma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwanda denies involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have said that a ceasefire supposed to take hold on Friday evening &#8220;does not concern&#8221; the group. They called on the DR Congo government for direct dialogue. The rebels&#8217; spokesman, Lawrence Kanyuka, said that as they had no representatives at Wednesday&#8217;s mini-summit in the Angolan capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4899,2567,5304,11583,12283,596,913,8647,2264,6858,1573,594],"class_list":["post-27655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-african","tag-angola","tag-attack","tag-capital","tag-ceasefire","tag-congo","tag-democratic","tag-dr-congo","tag-government","tag-rebels","tag-rwanda","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}