Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw the rebels seize the region’s largest city of Goma.
A joint delegation from the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and the Church of Christ in Congo (ECC) – two of the largest church organizations in the country – arrived in Goma on Wednesday and met with Corneille Nangaa, who has emerged as the M23 rebels’ political leader since they seized Goma in late January during a major escalation in their yearslong fighting with Congolese forces.
