Former Presidents to Coordinate Peace Efforts in DRC
At their Second EAC-SADC joint Summit held on Monday, the leaders unanimously named Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa, Catherine Samba Panza of the Central African Republic and Sahle-Work Zewde (Ethiopia) on the Panel of Facilitators.
Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have appointed former African heads of state to facilitate the implementation of peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At their Second EAC-SADC joint Summit held on Monday, the leaders unanimously named Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa, Catherine Samba Panza of the Central African Republic and Sahle-Work Zewde (Ethiopia) on the Panel of Facilitators.
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The EAC and SADC Secretariats were directed to inform the former presidents of their appointments and their role as facilitators and to notify the African Union and the UN Security Council.
The meeting co-chaired by Zimbabwe President Emerson Mnangagwa and William Ruto of Kenya directed the Co-chairs to convene a briefing session with the Panel of Facilitators within the next seven days.
The briefing should be done jointly by SADC, EAC and the AU.
The composition of the panel was mainly informed by the need for gender, language and regional inclusivity, according to the joint communique issued after the summit.
The joint summit adopted the outcomes of the joint EAC-SADC Meeting of Ministers that was held on March 17, 2025, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
These included the report of the joint meeting of the chiefs of defence, the roadmap detailing immediate, mid- and long-term implementation measures to attain sustainable peace and security, and directed “a speedy implementation” of the same by the relevant parties.
