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@YvonMuya@France24_en Great analysis Muya. I believe Rwanda was under pressure and had no other choice than to urge Kabila to reveal himself. However the best approach would for the UN Security Council to exercise more pressure on Rwanda.
@HarianaVeras I love Hariana, she’s the voice of the voiceless! Congolese have suffered in the hands of Kagame and Rwanda. Millions of Congolese have been killed , women and children raped by the Rwandan army, our minerals have been looted for 3 decades. Thank mum and May God protect you!
@StanysBujakera Comment crime de guerre? L’ONU doit prouver la mens rea hors de tout doute raisonnable! L’attaque contre l’agent de l’UNICEF n’etait pas premedité! She was at the wrong place at the wrong time . Pas de crime!
Speaking in the UK, Donald John Trump claimed he had resolved the war between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He said they were using machetes to massacre people, calling it a “machete war.”
What he seemed to confuse is that machetes were the main weapon during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, when in just 100 days, about 800,000 people — mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus — were slaughtered with clubs and machetes. That horror is not the same as the wars that have devastated the Congo ever since.
The current proxy war is between M23 rebels — a Tutsi-led group based in eastern Congo but widely reported to be backed by Rwanda — and the Congolese army (FARDC), which fights on behalf of the government in Kinshasa. That conflict is fought with modern weapons, often supplied by the United States, Russia, and China.
It is not the genocide that took place decades ago. In fact, the Congo wars since the late 1990s have been among the deadliest conflicts anywhere in the world since World War II, with an estimated 5 to 6 million deaths, most caused not by machetes but by displacement, disease, and hunger. The United Nations has maintained one of its largest peacekeeping missions in eastern Congo for over two decades, underscoring that this is a modern, internationalized war involving armies and global actors — not a machete slaughter like Rwanda’s genocide.
Trump also repeated the false claim that people from the Congo (there are two Congos in Africa: the much larger Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose capital is Kinshasa, and the smaller Republic of Congo, whose capital is Brazzaville) were being shipped to the United States straight from prisons. It seems he does not know where either Congo is located.
Here are the facts: fewer than 0.1 percent of Congolese applicants are granted U.S. visas. There is no “trekking” to the U.S., and those who try to go through Mexico must first secure a Mexican visa — which almost none receive. Congolese prisoners do not leave jail, get money, obtain a passport, secure a visa, and hop on a plane to America.
That’s the reality for most Africans: 99.9 percent of visa applications to the United States are denied. Meanwhile, Americans can enter or get visas on arrival in many African nations — including South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco, Tunisia, Botswana, Namibia, and Senegal — often with little to no paperwork. Africans do not enjoy the same privilege when trying to visit the United States.