FORUM DES AS headline: "Crisis in the East of the DRC: Paul Kagame Agrees to Meet with Félix Tshisekedi"

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has made a move towards his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi, this newspaper considers, noting: "He has just agreed to meet to discuss the security situation in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

This new step towards a Tshisekedi-Kagame meeting is significant as violence in the east of the country has already forced more than 100,000 additional people to flee, according to the UN, bringing the number of displaced people in the country to over 7 million. The goal now is to find a lasting political solution to this longstanding crisis, FORUM DES AS reminds.

STILL on the agreement of the Rwandan head of state to meet his Congolese counterpart, "Luanda: Félix Tshisekedi Demands the Withdrawal of Rwandan Troops and Their 23 MRC Affiliates from the DRC," headlines LA PROSPERITE. Referring to the report of the hundred and twenty-eighth ordinary council of ministers' meeting, the tabloid quotes: "In Luanda, the first stop of his official tour, he spoke with his counterpart Joao Manuel Lourenço, the president of the Republic of Angola, and the mediator designated by the African Union to find a solution to the security and diplomatic crisis between our country and Rwanda."

The opening of discussions with Kigali was mentioned, he continues, on the sole condition of seeing the Rwandan regime withdraw all its troops from occupied territories and seeing its M23 affiliate comply with the resolutions of the Luanda Process, which require their cantonment.

To conclude on the agreement of the Rwandan head of state to meet his Congolese counterpart, AGENCE CONGOLAISE DE PRESSE (ACP) headlines: "Conflict in the Great Lakes: Lourenço Relaunches the Luanda Process."

For this media outlet, "By returning to the negotiation table, Kagame has finally understood that violence is not a lasting solution. In one way or another, Rwandan troops will not remain indefinitely on Congolese territory uninvited. The displacement of hundreds of thousands of people has ended up exacerbating the international community which, nearly unanimously, has cornered Rwanda. Lie ...lie."

The return to the processes of Luanda, and even Nairobi, long neglected by Kigali's cynic, seems to have begun, considers the ACP.

Regarding the DRC's complaint against the Kigali regime at the East African Community Court of Justice (EACJ), "DRC Files Complaint Against Rwanda at the EAC Court of Justice." LE PHARE, which proposes this title, comments: "Having escaped the International Court of Justice, ICJ of The Hague because the country is not a member of that jurisdiction, born of the Rome convention, while its belligerent Uganda is executing against the sanction imposed by the DRC, Rwanda will not be able to escape this time."

"DRC Complaint Against Rwanda at the EAC Court of Justice: A Non-Paying Strategy for the Congolese," considers FORUM DES AS.

This information was delivered in Arusha by the chief justice of the court, Nestor Kayobera, at the opening of the second training for media managers and journalists from eight countries in the region, announces this newspaper which also notes that several Congolese believe that such action is inappropriate and counterproductive. If the forces sent by the member countries of this organization, despite the weapons they carried, did nothing to neutralize the M23 terrorists supported by the RDF, nobody sees how the judges of the EAC Court of Justice will succeed in the mission to publicly condemn the Rwandan regime. Because, this daily explains, today, for the Congolese, the situation is no longer about resolutions with long speeches, but about the end of the war. Everything that is limited to pious wishes is simply a distraction.

For the citizens of the DRC, our colleague continues, Paul Kagame only understands the language of force. Violence is in his DNA. As long as he does not feel threatened, the dictator and aggressor will not bend. The evidence is there. While many countries and even the powerful of this world ask him to stop his support for the M23, he continues to send his troops onto Congolese soil.

Returning to the DRC's complaint against Rwanda, FORUM DES AS insists, no Congolese is fool enough to wait for a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Given the composition of the said court, the dice are already cast for the DRC. Even though a saying goes that one should never be discouraged in life, in this specific case, the DRC would do well to abandon this path.

Boni Tsala