Press review of Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Congolese media return this Thursday on discrete negotiations, cross-crossed mediations and international pressures, as the signing of an agreement between the DRC and Rwanda, under the aegis of the United States. As proof, the meeting between one of the mediators of the EAC and the SADC with the Congolese head of state.
The President of the Republic Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi spoke on Wednesday June 25 in Kinshasa with the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, one of the facilitators designated by the Eastern African Community (EAC) and the Development Community of Southern Africa (SADC) to contribute to finding solutions to the armed conflict that shakes eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo Africa News.
The security crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo was on the menu for these exchanges, summarizes theCongolese press agency.
The interview, which lasted almost two hours, is part of a regional diplomatic tour aimed at bringing the positions of the DRC and Rwanda closer, whose relations remain tense against persistent violence in North Kivu and South Kivu, adds Forum des AS.
“We explore all the possibilities on the situation between Rwanda and the DRC so that there is no longer a military confrontation and violence,” Obasanjo told the comments made by the newspaper.
The former Nigerian president says it is appreciated all the current peace initiatives, whether that of the United States or Qatar, notes Actualite.cd.
This meeting intervenes in a context where the social and Protestant’s initiative at the Social and Protestant Churches initiative and after three months of consultations in the country and abroad, the religious leaders of the Catholic and Protestant churches met the President of the Republic to present the results of their work, recalls the portal.
By receiving at Kinshasa Olusegun Obasanjo, analysis Info 27the Congolese head of state, Félix Tshisekedi, is part of a progressive de -escalation strategy.
But on the ground, points out the daily, the security situation remains precarious. The RDF-M23 armed coalition continues to occupy several localities in the provinces of North Kivu. Faced with this chronic instability, the multiplication of diplomatic initiatives suggests an alignment of actors determined to get out of the Congolese from a larger war for more than two decades, concludes tabloid.
