M23 announces exit from DRC’s Uvira as US-brokered ceasefire stutters | Conflict News
2025-12-16
The M23 rebel group, backed by Rwanda, has agreed to a U.S. request to withdraw from the strategic town of Uvira in eastern DRC, a move framed as a unilateral trust-building measure to salvage recent peace agreements. This concession follows the group’s seizure of the town, which directly jeopardized a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the DRC, as well as a separate framework signed in Doha. However, the rebels remain skeptical, citing past instancesContinue Reading