Rwandan foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo talks to RFI about the peace deal for eastern Congo

At the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, 8 African leaders were meant to sign a U.N.-mediated peace deal aimed at ending two decades of conflict in eastern Congo.The deal was to be signed on the last day of the summit, but was cancelled at the last minute. The agreement - a political framework - was also to include the deployment of several thousand extra soldiers to tackle armed militias in eastern DRC. The 8 countries are DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Angola, Republic of Congo, South Africa and Tanzania. At the AU summit, RFI spoke to Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s foreign minister about the accord.

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