UN to deploy ceasefire monitoring mission in Congo, Qatar says
Uvira residents walk in the town streets on December 13, 2025. The UN is set to deploy its first ceasefire monitoring team following Doha-mediated talks between the government and M23 rebels.
The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Congo will send its first team to monitor a ceasefire between Congo’s government and the AFC/M23 rebel group in the coming days, Qatar’s foreign ministry said on Monday after hosting talks in Doha.
Qatar said the team would be deployed to Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo that AFC/M23 fighters captured in December during a rapid offensive, and which Congolese forces and allied militias re‑entered last month, restoring government control after the rebels announced they would withdraw.
