Macron’s Great Lakes Peace Push Falters Amid Gunfire and Skepticism over Goma Airport Plans

Macron’s great lakes peace push falters amid gunfire and skepticism over Goma airport plans

Experts say that while the aid injection and infrastructure plans are welcome, they must be matched by genuine diplomatic breakthroughs and credible frameworks — not just big announcements.

Paris push for Africa's Great Lakes peace falters amid gunfire, distrust

Paris push for Africa's Great Lakes peace falters amid gunfire, distrust

Congolese rebel groups say Macron’s call to reopen Goma airport ‘untimely’

France is urged to act with caution so as not to inadvertently revive memories of its difficult and tragic past in Africa’s Great Lakes region, groups say in statement - Anadolu Ajansı

Macron Pledges €1.5 Billion Aid to Africa’s Great Lakes Region

A high-profile conference in Paris aimed at stabilizing Africa’s Great Lakes region has yielded a significant pledge of humanitarian aid from French President…

AFC/M23 Rejects Calls to Reopen Goma Airport

The AFC/M23 rebel movement has dismissed calls made during a peace conference in France for the reopening of Goma International Airport, which remains under its control in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Corneille Nangaa, leader of AFC/M23, said the group was neither consulted nor informed about the decision issued at the Paris conference on peace