Central Africa: Appeal From South Kivu Civil Society - 'Territorial Integrity Must Be Respected and the Local Population Must Be Included in the Peace Talks'

Central Africa: Appeal From South Kivu Civil Society - 'Territorial Integrity Must Be Respected and the Local Population Must Be Included in the Peace Talks'

Kinshasa -- The populations in war-torn areas must not be ignored by not being invited to negotiations to resolve the conflicts that affect them. This is what a group of personalities and traditional leaders from South Kivu civil society stressed in a joint appeal to Mohammed Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Khulaif, the Qatari Minister of State in charge of mediating between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to resolve the conflict in eastern Congo.