The objective is the approval of the Plan of Action for Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo) and the re-establishment of good relations between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, according to a note from the press secretary of the Presidential Palace.
The note does not specify whether the guests - Paul Kagame, from Rwanda, Félix Tshisekedi, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Évariste Ndayishimiye, from Burundi, and the former President of the Republic of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta - confirmed their presence.
João Lourenço has been the mediator in charge of the dossier on the DR Congo-Rwanda conflict, mandated by the African Union, and last weekend he traveled to each of the countries to meet with their respective presidents.
On Monday, the Angolan head of state received the deputy prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRCongo, Christophe Lutundula, who was the bearer of a message from Tshisekedi, the content of which was not revealed.
Eastern DR Congo has been mired in conflict for more than two decades, fueled by rebel militias and the Congolese army despite the presence of the UN peacekeeping mission, Monusco.
Fighting between the M23 and the Congolese army intensified again at the end of October, after a period of truce.
The fighting, in addition to causing tens of thousands of internally displaced people, led the M23 to control several cities in North Kivu province and generated a diplomatic crisis in which DRCongo accuses Rwanda of supporting the M23, an allegation that the Rwandan government always denied.
However, a confidential report by United Nations (UN) experts, released in early August, confirmed this cooperation.
DRCongo and Rwanda insist on dialogue to resolve the growing tension, with the support of negotiations promoted by the East African Community (EAC) in Nairobi and by the Angolan President and Head of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), João Lourenço, in Luanda.
The M23 was created in 2012, when Congolese soldiers revolted over the loss of power of their leader, Bosco Ntaganda, accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes and for alleged violations of the peace agreement of 23 March 2012. 2009, after which the movement is named.
The group demanded a renegotiation of the agreement signed by the Congolese guerrilla National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) for their integration into the army, in order to improve their conditions.
The CNDP, made up mainly of Tutsis (a group that suffered from the Rwandan genocide of 1994), was formed in 2006 to - among other goals - fight the Hutus of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), founded in 2000 by the leaders of the genocide and other Rwandans exiled in DR Congo in order to regain political power in their country.
