Just as the Alliance Fleuve du Congo and the March 23 rebel groups leaders attend what is thought to be peace negotiations in Qatar, Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni has also concluded his own meeting to that effect in Kampala.
The Deputy Coordinator of the DR Congo Rebels coalition, General Bertrand Bissimwa and Colonel John Imani Nzenze, the rebel intelligence chief, flew to Doha last weekend after being invited by Emir of the state of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim ​Ibn Hamad Al Thani.
The DR Congo rebels’ delegation is part of the initiated process to find a peace solution in the war-torn eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Several sources suggest that a meeting between the rebels and a delegation from the governments of DR Congo and Rwanda were supposed to take place in Qatar, where previously, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DRC leader Felix Tshisekedi also met.
The rebel leaders managed to safely travel from DR Congo and land in Doha despite an international arrest warrant issued against ​them by Kinshasa’s​ Minister of Justice​, Constant Mutamba.
In another development, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda held meetings with Corneille Nangaa the leader of the M23 rebel group as well as the former DR Congo President, Joseph Kabila.
It is not yet known what transpired during the meeting in which Museveni had converged with Joseph Kabila and Alliance Fleuve du Congo (AFC) and M23 rebel-coalition leader Corneille Nangaa in Kampala.
It is being reported that the DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi is the one who appealed to the Ugandan Head of State to organize the meeting which he however did not attend himself.
Tshisekedi aims to obtain a ceasefire agreement from the meeting as the AFC and M23 rebels continue to threaten his government with their continued advancement from the provinces of North and South Kivu.
But there are confirmed reports that another rebel group is forming in DR Congo, which further threatens the sovereignty of Tshisekedi’s Government and his supporters.