{"id":220089,"date":"2026-01-11T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-regional-defence-ministers-meet-in-zambia-over-dr-congo-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:11:56","slug":"congo-kinshasa-regional-defence-ministers-meet-in-zambia-over-dr-congo-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-regional-defence-ministers-meet-in-zambia-over-dr-congo-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Regional Defence Ministers Meet in Zambia Over DR Congo Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Defence ministers from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) are expected to meet in Zambia on Saturday, January 10, to discuss security issues in eastern DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Items on the agenda include the operationalisation of a long-delayed ceasefire monitoring team tasked with overseeing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/25904\/news\/africa\/kinshasa-afcm23-rebels-agree-on-ceasefire-at-qatar-talks\" rel=\"noopener\">ceasefire<\/a> signed between the Congolese government and the AFC\/M23 rebels in Doha in October 2025, according to the ICGLR Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>ALSO READ<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/28218\/news\/africa\/dr-congo-afcm23-talks-details-of-new-deal-emerge\" rel=\"noopener\">DR Congo-AFC\/M23 talks: Details of new deal&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministers from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) are expected to meet in Zambia on Saturday, January 10, to discuss security issues in eastern DR Congo. Items on the agenda include the operationalisation of a long-delayed ceasefire monitoring team tasked with overseeing the ceasefire signed between the Congolese government and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220090,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,4554,8386,3723,6874,6508,8788,257,4268,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-220089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congo","tag-congokinshasa","tag-crisis","tag-defence","tag-meet","tag-ministers","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/220089","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=220089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}