AU talks break down over DR Congo crisis

Talks have broken down at the African Union summit in Ethiopia on plans to solve the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

A spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, announced on Monday at the summit room that the signing ceremony in Addis Ababa had been cancelled. 

Reporting from the city, James Bays, Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor, said that the talks would continue in private between various heads of state at another location in the city and not at the African Union building.

He said he spoke to a delegate from DRC who was not hopeful that anything would be resolved during this meeting in Addis Ababa.

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