{"id":193439,"date":"2025-03-13T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pushes-for-direct-talks-between-kinshasa-and-m23-in-drc-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:00:38","slug":"angola-pushes-for-direct-talks-between-kinshasa-and-m23-in-drc-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-pushes-for-direct-talks-between-kinshasa-and-m23-in-drc-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Pushes for Direct Talks Between Kinshasa and M23 in DRC Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em> As Angola continues to act as a mediator in the crisis in eastern DRC, President Louren\u00e7o is working on bringing about direct negotiations between Kinshasa and the M23. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The conflict in eastern DRC was the focus of a new meeting between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Angolan counterpart, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, mediator of the crisis tearing apart the region, in Luanda on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">According to the two presidents, discussions could begin between Kinshasa and the M23 armed group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">After&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Angola continues to act as a mediator in the crisis in eastern DRC, President Louren\u00e7o is working on bringing about direct negotiations between Kinshasa and the M23. The conflict in eastern DRC was the focus of a new meeting between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Angolan counterpart, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, mediator of the crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,3723,6968,279,547,34516,257,16296,254,5038],"class_list":["post-193439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-crisis","tag-direct","tag-drc","tag-kinshasa","tag-m23","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}