https://www.dw.com/en/m23-rebels-withdraw-from-congo-peace-talks/a-71956448
The peace talks were supposed to happen today.
I may be wrong, but they withdrawn from the talks because the e.u., warned in advance, still refused to withdraw their sanctions, otherwise these discussions would have probably happened(, unless it’s a convenient excuse from the M23).
What can be expected is that the haughty e.u. will refuse to withdraw their sanctions tomorrow/‘this week’, even temporarily.
(negotiating still seem in their interests though, no ? It’s probably just a part of their revendications and i hope that the e.u. will retract their sanctions accordingly since that’s an easy demand to satisfy)
From what i understood, their revendications are towards a tutsi minority that they deem inadequately integrated&protected.
The name of their movement comes from the treaty signed on the 23 March 2009, considered not implemented by the M23.
Europeans may not have been warned beforehand for all i know, and they can’t react immediately, like D.Trump, but the ‘council of the european union’/‘ministers of state-members’ can vote by written procedure, it can theoretically be done within 24h
The Europeans don’t want peace there. They sponsor the conflict behind the scenes, because it gives them cheap access to the diamond mines in the area.
According to reports, the first thing M23 did was to take over the mining towns and forced people to get to mining.