The latest has been the house arrest of Dr Machar last night. According to media reports, Machar’s house in the capital, Juba, was surrounded by soldiers from the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces who disarmed all Machar’s soldiers.
“By implementing the Master Plan and the proposed initiatives, we are laying the groundwork for a seamless, cost-effective and inclusive financial ecosystem,” said Regional Payment Systems Steering Committee chairperson, Michael Eganza,
The asylum seekers are fleeing to Kisoro from Rutshuru, Nyiragongo territories and Goma city in North Kivu province and other areas under occupation of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels.
According to a statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit, the Joint Summit of the Heads of State and Government of EAC and SADC was co-chaired by William Ruto, President of the of Kenya and Chairperson of the EAC and Emmerson Mnangagwa, the President of Zimbabwe and Chairperson of SADC.
At their Second EAC-SADC joint Summit held on Monday, the leaders unanimously named Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa, Catherine Samba Panza of the Central African Republic and Sahle-Work Zewde (Ethiopia) on the Panel of Facilitators.
A UN group of experts had on Friday announced that their officials are set to hold a discussion with M23 leaders in Goma city between March 23 to 27, 2025.
On Wednesday night, M23 rebels released a statement signed by their coordinator, Corneille Nangaa Yobeuo, appointing Robert Mugisha as the overall head of the Finance Department.
At the meeting that came on the day Tshisekedi and M23 rebels were scheduled to meet in Angola, Luanda, before the latter pulled out, the two men "reaffirmed their commitment" to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and agreed to continue dialogue for lasting peace, according to a joint statement.
The project, EAC4Nature, will run from January 2025 to June 2028 with a total funding of 8 million euros (5.5 million Euros from BMZ and 2. 5 million Euros from the EU).
"Successive sanctions imposed on our members, including those enacted on the eve of the Luanda discussions, severely undermine direct dialogue and make any progress impossible," said M23.
"Rwanda’s decision has been taken after careful consideration of several factors, all linked with Belgium’s pitiful attempts to sustain its neocolonial delusions," says a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Wanda.
The Tumaini Peace Initiative, launched in May 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, is a high-level mediation effort aimed at resolving the conflict in South Sudan by engaging holdout groups that have not signed the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.
Angolan President João Lourenço’s office announced the start of direct negotiations between Kinshasa and the M23 rebels, starting on March 18, in the capital, Luanda.
The SADC Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of States and Government sitting in Harare, Zimbabwe, the leaders directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC (Southern African Mission in DRC) troops from the DRC.
“UPDF Commandos arriving in Juba to support South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) in the current crisis. Operation 'Mlinzi wa Kimya' has began. God bless UPDF,” Muhoozi posted on a video on his favorite social media platform, X.
Citing the EAC Report on ‘‘Gender, Community Development, and Civil Society’’, they said most FDI is going into the mining, large agriculture and construction areas which, unfortunately, are concentrations of rights violations, with women workers particularly more affected.
The leaders are; Bertrand Bisimwa the M23 rebels president, General Emmanuel Sultani Makenga the rebels military Commander and Corneille Nangaa the coordinator of Alliance River Congo (AFC), a coalition of M23 rebel group.
