DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi made a personal appeal to Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to stop supporting insurgents in DRC and work together for “peace”, at a Brussels event attended by both leaders Thursday.

Tshisekedi, 62, issued the call as he took the podium after Kagame at the Global Gateway Forum, an investment conference organised by the European Union in the Belgian capital.

“I call this forum as witness, and through it the entire world, to reach out my hand to you, Mr President, so that we may make peace,” Tshisekedi said.

“This requires you to order the M23 troops supported by your country to stop this escalation, which has already caused enough deaths,” he said.

“Let us simply have the courage to look ourselves in the eye, say what is wrong and take the right decisions for our

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