”The parties undertake to maintain their commitment to a permanent ceasefire”, it says in the agreement. This includes refraining from ”hate propaganda”.
According to the agreement, the warring parties have agreed to initiate negotiations on a comprehensive peace agreement. It is planned to be signed no later than August 18.
The agreement was signed after three months of talks in Qatar's capital Doha and follows another peace agreement between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda that was signed in Washington in June.
M23, which captured large parts of the territory in eastern DR Congo in a lightning offensive at the beginning of the year, has insisted on trying to establish its own ceasefire agreement with Kinshasa and said that the Washington agreement omitted various ”problems” that still needed to be solved.
