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UN’s Top Congo Envoy Sits Down With Kabila in Goma as the West Turns Up the Heat on His New Rebel Alliance

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo sent its top official to Goma for face-to-face talks with former President Joseph Kabila, even as Washington, Brussels and London sharply criticised his newly formed armed political movement. The meeting signals just how tangled the DRC’s diplomatic knot has become. Here is what it means and why it matters.