{"id":29088,"date":"2026-03-18T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29088"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:31:55","slug":"us-leads-new-round-of-diplomacy-between-drc-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-leads-new-round-of-diplomacy-between-drc-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"US leads new round of diplomacy between DRC, Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The United States (US ) is hosting Senior Officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda this week in a renewed diplomatic push to revive the stalled peace process in eastern DRC.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_aboveBlackLine\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bilateral engagements between Washington and each country had been scheduled for Tuesday, with a trilateral meeting expected to be held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The talks will mark the first high-level engagements since the US Department of Treasury imposed sanctions earlier this month on the 2nd targeting the Rwanda Defence Force and four Senior Officers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington has accused Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group, a claim Kigali continues to deny.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The diplomatic talks come amidst the backdrop of heightened tensions following the M23&#8217;s rapid territorial expansion in eastern DRC last year in January, which has significantly destabilised the region.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings also coincide with the Powering Africa Summit currently being held in the US capital, which is being attended by African government officials, including energy Ministers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29090,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-29088","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda peace process","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29091,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29088\/revisions\/29091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}