UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon later this month will sign a security peace deal with several African states to end conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Eleven nations, including the DRC, Congo, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, and Burundi have signaled the UN that they are ready to sign the agreement that would set up an international force of local countries to stabilize the eastern part of the DRC which has long been an area rife with militia groups that pay little attention to the government in Kinshasa. An agreement was due to be signed at the African Union in January but South Africa and others complained that the UN did not share details with the governments about specifics of the deal, supposedly South Africa balked at the cost of the agreement which they were expected to pay.
Currently, the M23 militia, a group that had joined the DRC army but broke away over power sharing arrangements, is a prime concern after the group took over the biggest city in the DRC east, Goma for a short time in November. The current agreement may have a chance of working because the prime backer of M23, the Rwandan government, seems willing to engage in resolving the situation.
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