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The waters are running red in Africa’s Great Lakes region
A war is raging that we can’t ignore any longer, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
DESPERATE: People fleeing the fighting between government forces and M-23 rebels make their way towards Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

IN EARLY November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vincent Biruta, met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades.

The foreign ministers agreed that the “peace roadmapagreed to in a July meeting had to be implemented.

Angola’s President Joao Lourenco shuttled between Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and the DRC’s President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi in his role as the African Union’s “mediator in the crisis” between Rwanda and the DRC.

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