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Regional crisis, global balance: The DRC-Rwanda conflict, M23 and minerals
The M23 is one of the most important actors operating in the DRC territory, allegedly supported by Rwanda. While the M23’s goals are officially to “protect the Tutsi population,” the group’s activities are largely related to control of strategic mining areas in the eastern part of the DRC.
The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.
Jacobin on MSN2d
Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in CongoThe war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...
Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...
Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.
Al Jazeera on MSN20h
‘People need a break’: DRC conflict reignites dark memories of Congo warsIs a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?
Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada's position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was 'shameful,' adding ...
The current fighting is the result of a decision by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to incite ethnic violence and to support groups that perpetrated the Rwanda genocide.
ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...
The European Investment Bank is holding off on decisions to finance the $760m Ruzizi III hydropower plant in Central Africa, ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN10h
Twenty Burundian troops have been killed in fighting with the M23 armed group and Rwandan troops supporting it in eastern Democratic of Congo, military sources told AFP on ...Twenty Burundian troops have been killed in fighting with the M23 armed group and Rwandan troops supporting it in eastern Democratic of Congo, military sources told AFP on Thursday. "We have ...
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