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DR Congo, M23 Armed Group Sign Ceasefire Deal

Qatar's junior foreign minister Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al-Khulaifi sits in the centre as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 sign a ceasefire deal (Credit: AFP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that has devastated the country's mineral-rich but conflict-torn east.

The truce was agreed in a Declaration of Principles signed by the two sides after three months of talks in the Qatari capital, Doha, which follows a separate Congolese-Rwandan peace deal signed in Washington last month.

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