Last week, Gnassingbé went to Kinshasa to meet with Democratic Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi.
These are the AU mediator's first visits to the two capitals since he replaced, on April 13, his Angolan counterpart, João Lourenço, in the mediation efforts he had been carrying out, mandated by the African Union, since 2022.
The east of the DR Congo, a strategic area rich in mineral resources, has been the scene of a war for several years between the Democratic Congolese army and the M23 rebel group (supported by Rwanda), which has captured two important cities, Goma and Bukavu, in a lightning offensive in recent months.
The Togolese mediator "will personally engage in dialogue with his Rwandan counterpart on the causes, consequences and implications of the different regional actors" in this conflict, the Presidency said in a press release.
"Togo's ambition is to lay the foundations for constructive dialogue and lasting reconciliation for a peaceful resolution of this crisis," the note explains.
Since late 2021, half a dozen truces and ceasefires have been declared in eastern DR Congo, which have quickly been broken.
Angola's mediation efforts failed, but representatives of the M23 and DR Congo held talks in Doha in March under the auspices of Qatar.
The presidents of Rwanda and DR Congo also met in Doha.
"We have managed to create a flexible line of communication between the two sides and we hope to have more success (...) in the coming days," Qatar's chief negotiator Mohammed Al-Khulaifi told AFP in an interview on Friday.
Qatar, he stressed, convinced M23, Rwanda and DR Congo to commit to a "de-escalation" near the strategic mining town of Walikale, which was captured by M23.
