{"id":194240,"date":"2025-03-22T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-angolan-president-surprised-by-qatari-initiative-on-drc-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:21:19","slug":"congo-kinshasa-angolan-president-surprised-by-qatari-initiative-on-drc-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/congo-kinshasa-angolan-president-surprised-by-qatari-initiative-on-drc-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Angolan President Surprised By Qatari Initiative On DRC Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Luanda \u2014 Foreign Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio said Thursday in Luanda that Angolan Head of State Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o was surprised by Qatar&#8217;s initiative to bring together Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Doha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Doha meeting took place on the same day that Angola (which is acting as a mediator in the conflict) was to begin direct peace talks between delegations from the DRC and the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) rebels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210047.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>Luanda \u2014 Foreign Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio said Thursday in Luanda that Angolan Head of State Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o was surprised by Qatar&#8217;s initiative to bring together Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Doha. The Doha meeting took place on the same day that Angola (which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,6556,2444,8386,279,9890,257,2450,1558,254,31221],"class_list":["post-194240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-conflict","tag-congokinshasa","tag-drc","tag-initiative","tag-news","tag-president","tag-qatari","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surprised"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194240","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=194240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}