Moïse Katumbi: "We will go to Goma to meet Joseph Kabila"
The exiled Congolese opposition leader is touring Western capitals to promote an inclusive national dialogue that would include the rebels and the former President who leads them.
Moïse Katumbi, the exiled Congolese opposition leader and former Governor of Katanga, has said he intends to travel to Goma to meet former President Joseph Kabila as part of efforts to promote an inclusive national dialogue.
Mr Katumbi has been touring Western capitals, including Paris, to argue that a lasting settlement in the Democratic Republic of Congo must include all parties: the government, the political opposition and the rebel movements that control large parts of the east, together with Mr Kabila, who now leads them.
Mr Kabila heads the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), a political and military coalition that includes the M23. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Congolese court last year.
President Félix Tshisekedi has previously offered a national dialogue, which the opposition rejected in August. The proposal comes as tensions rise over the President's new law on constitutional referendums, which opponents fear could open the way to a third term, and as fighting intensifies in South Kivu.