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SADC, EAC Leaders Call For An Immediate Ceasefire In Eastern DRC

1 month agoMon, 10 Feb 2025 07:06:32 GMT

SADC, EAC Leaders Call For An Immediate Ceasefire In Eastern DRC

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) have jointly called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The ceasefire will be enforced by army chiefs within five days.

SADC and EAC leaders held a joint summit in Tanzania on Saturday, 08 February, to address the crisis in the eastern DRC.

Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) rebels have captured Goma and the war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

A communique issued after the summit outlined the resolutions, including the call for a ceasefire. It reads in part:

The Joint Summit directed the EAC-SADC Chiefs of Defense Forces to meet within five (5) days and provide technical direction on immediate and unconditional ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, provision of humanitarian assistance including repatriation of the deceased and evacuation of the injured.
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The joint summit also called for the reopening of main supply routes and Goma airport. Reads the communique:

Develop a securitisation plan for Goma and surrounding areas, opening of main supply routes including Goma-Sake-Bukavu; Goma-Kibumba-Rumangabo-Kalengera- Rutshuru-Bunagana; and Goma- Kiwanja-Rwindi- Kanyabayonga-Lubero including navigation on Lake Kivu between Goma and Bukavu and immediate re-opening of Goma Airport.

The leaders called for negotiations and dialogue with all state and non-state parties, including military and non-military groups such as the M23.

They also directed that plans for the withdrawal of uninvited foreign armed forces from the DRC be developed and implemented.

SADC Chairman President Mnangagwa, EAC counterpart President Ruto, and host Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan were among the attendees.

DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi, who accuses Rwanda of backing rebels in his country, participated virtually.

Also in attendance were Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.

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35 Comments

Sir African · 1 month ago

@Burn down Kigali.Do not mislead people.SA said it has no capacity to wage a war with Rwanda and that it has no money to wage one as it is low on arms munitions. Those Rwandis drove out Zimbabwe's army in 2000s. They have never stopped attacks on DRC. You can see from pictures on the internet that M23 is well armed and dressed like any army which lends credence they are supported by Rwanda. At the SADC /EAC meeting Kagame was clear the war would continue unabated and was ready for South Africa and any nation in DRC.

Zimbabwe Bandaranaike Leadership Academy · 1 month ago

ok Sir African the Rwandese are a mercenary force for hire well oiled by the Americans but mark my words Kigali the capital of Rwanda is going to be the new African theatre of war and the liberated Goma will be forgotten

Utopian Observatory Vantage Point · 1 month ago

ko kungoropodza zvisina basa nhai munodarirei

Burn down Kigali · 1 month ago

South Africa has an Apartheid era secret nuclear weapon and as we speak now the Americans are trying to get guarantees from Ramaphosa that the weapon will not be used against Kigali

Golra · 1 month ago

True inayo nuclear weapon, if not 3

Burn down Kigali · 1 month ago

Goma shall be liberated from the M23 and it shall be swift and brutal.a coordinated strategy is already on the cards

Burn down Kigali · 1 month ago

SA has fighter jet that are capable of flying non stop to Kigali to hit targets and then make a brief stop over in Kinshasa for refuelling

Cyberturf tornadoes · 1 month ago

keep a low profile guys on the net some wolves are on the prowl remember Manning and Julian Assange guys

Sir African · 1 month ago

@Cyberturf .Who cares about the wolves, they must go jump in a lake or two if one if is small for them.

Burn down kigali · 1 month ago

A ceasefire has been brokered and there is going to be an exchange of POW with General Nkunda set to be released on Friday next week at 22:00

Burn down kigali · 1 month ago

the American secretary of state has arrived with an aid package to SA which is on condition that Ramaphosa does not burn down Kigali to cinders

Burn down kigali · 1 month ago

Ramaphosa can turn Kigali to ashes in 6minutes flat.He is being restrained by Trump as we speak and the American secretary of state is on a secret mission to Joburg to deliver a special message to Ramaphosa not to burn Kigali with his Israel manufactured fighter jets

Zvigokupei Zvenyika · 1 month ago

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Utopian Observatory Vantage Point · 1 month ago

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Johm · 1 month ago

CHAIRMANNNN ITAI BASA VACHIHUKURA

Chamisa · 1 month ago

Achahukurawo gore rino, Zim ichaitawo noise soon

West · 1 month ago

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PR · 1 month ago

Look at the sadc chairman

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Sir African · 1 month ago

This supposition that Americans are behind in DRC is not supported by facts.Its the Africans themselves who want these wars because they are greedy,corrupt,tribalistic and want to hang on to power. Look at Meseveni, he is just as good as Idi Amini the dictator who killed 500.000. For how long has been Kagame has been in power?People go to war to unsit dictators,people are more educated than they were in the 1960s.Weapons of war are now easily accessible and if you convince the hoards of unemployed youths you will have an army of thousands if tens of thousands. Mugabe warned Zimbabweans of the threat of war because unfairness of the land distribution.One only needs a powered leg to start on in this country.

😎 · 1 month ago

Saka muridzi we nyaya idzi have a asarudza hake kusavepo, physically, where nyaya yaizo zeewa zwakanaka ariko vachi toaster to a peace ✌️ treaty, Something is not coming up right here it better they have resolved to withdraw foreign soldiers from the front and Let DRC deal with its issues alone But what if there a natural hate of these conflict zone inhabitants of the by all neighbors surrounding themselves that war tone region What if it's a tribe that came about inbreeding or lab clones with animals🙄 We hear of shortest people in the and very tall people in hailing from the same region What if it's that that which causing the these warring people to hate one another so much

Sir African · 1 month ago

The devil in the mix is Kagame, who supports the M23 rebels because he accuses DRC of harbouring those behind the massacres of the 1990s .He has also hunted down and assassinated those who are politically opposed him . Kagame even sent killer squads in RSA to eliminate two high ranking member of the opposition. The man who acted in Hotel Rwanda was abducted in Dubai after boarding a flight that was diverted to Rwanda and was only released after the USA protested since he had become an American citizen.

dok25 · 1 month ago

The wars will not end with just words. DRC is a vast country and it looks like they were worried of Goma only. How can they succeed if the leaders of the many militia groups were not even there or represented? Rwanda had a physical presence by the person they say accused of promoting the M23, and the DRC president, of all the people, was not present to, maybe give a chance for him and the Rwandan leader to be questioned on their roles as a starting point. When online, one can pretend not to hear or blame the network. They may as well have held the whole meeting virtually.

@vhedza · 1 month ago

Mind you Americans are behind this invasion. They have interests in DRC where it is easy for them to loot through this method.Minerals in this Eastern country are essentially important for the Americans.

Anonymous · 1 month ago

Because everything is Americas fault. If the sun doesn't shine tomorrow it will be Americas fault. The minerals are important to every industrialised country, not just America. They have nothing to fear from Zimbabwe.

dok25 · 1 month ago

when America speaks, people listen with minds already corrupted to be against it in everything. The truth always comes out when America acts

@vhedza · 1 month ago

Of concern is the way how the Americans use to extract what they want most when there is a loophole like the conflict in the DRC versus M23 .

Mono · 1 month ago

America this America that always blame game I wonder why they stopped giving africa foreign Aid stop blaming Americans for no reason

Chamisa · 1 month ago

America inoda oil, hama dza Ed ndidzo dzinoda ma minerals

Scara · 1 month ago

two regional blocks of cowards. y not just put together an army made up of elite soldiers from all these countries and send them to drc to get rid of the M23. But no, they're not doing that. instead they call for blah blah blah which will not materialise.