Sesanga and Fayulu insist that the talks should include former President Joseph Kabila who has been sentenced to death by a Congolese military court for treason as well as Corneille Nangaa the head of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) – which works with the M23 to control most of North and South Kivu with strong Rwandan military backing – and representatives of the Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) itself (AC Vol 66 No 20 Peace talks falter as M23 tightens its grip on the Kivus Vol 67 No 12 Tshisekedi tests opinion with third-term kite Dispatches 11/5/26 Tshisekedi flies a third term kite & 1/9/26 Tshisekedi opens a constitutional Kabuki theatre)...

Yet the church's credibility has been dented by the February 2025 trip to Goma by its Conference Episcopale Nationale du Congo to meet leader of the civilian wing Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo and the rest of the rebel M23 administration...

Complicating matters is Kabila's public alignment with the Rwandan-backed M23 militia which now runs a rebel administration in alliance with its civilian wing the Alliance Fleuve Congo led by Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo in the eastern Kivu provinces...

A team of Qatari facilitators in Doha has been trying to broker a military agreement between Congolese officials and the M23 and its political wing the Alliance du Fleuve Congo (AFC) led by Corneille Nangaa the former chair of the national electoral commission in Kinshasa...

Corneille Nangaa head of the Alliance Fleuve Congo and M23's political wing had ambitions to march on Kinshasa and depose Tshisekedi – ambitions reportedly reined in by Kagame according to the United Nations Group of Experts' (GoE) report...

The report says the AFC–M23 alliance led by Corneille Nangaa is dismantling state authority and replacing it with parallel governance erasing land records and imposing its own tax regime...

Kabila's 2025 stand-in Corneille Nangaa leads the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) the M23's political wing...

The Alliance Fleuve Congo the civilian wing of the Rwandan-backed M23 militia Congo-Kinshasa was launched by its leader Corneille Nangaa in Nairobi in 2023 infuriating Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi...

On 12 February a delegation of Catholic prelates met with Corneille Nangaa leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo the political wing of the M23 to discuss the deepening humanitarian crisis...

The Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) a political movement ostensibly headed by Corneille Nangaa a former president of the Congo-K's electoral commission has positioned itself as the civilian wing of the M23...