The US sanctioned former DRC President Joseph Kabila for financially backing M23 and the AFC rebel coalition. But if Washington is serious about accountability and not just optics, the next names on the OFAC list need to be @PaulKagame and Crystal Ventures Ltd.
Kabila is a financier operating in the margins. Kagame commands the Rwanda Defence Force, the very institution OFAC sanctioned in March for providing direct military, financial, and logistical support to M23.
Crystal Ventures, the commercial arm of Rwanda’s ruling @rpfinkotanyi, is the economic engine that converts Kigali’s strategic interests in eastern #DRCongo into institutional revenue. It is not a bystander. It is a beneficiary.
Sanctioning a deposed president while the sitting head of state and his party’s business conglomerate operate without consequence is not accountability. It is a warning shot fired in the wrong direction.
« Je voudrais, pour finir, adresser cette prière à l’ensemble de la Nation congolaise : « Les ténèbres ne règneront pas toujours. République Démocratique du Congo lève-toi et sois éclairée, car ta lumière arrive ! »
The Governments of the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are committed to advancing shared economic growth, stability, and prosperity through the U.S.-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement. This effort supports a foundation for greater U.S. investment in the DRC, recognizing that sustained economic growth underpins long-term stability. The U.S. government is not funding paramilitary groups to guard mines.
@Nevesbabe@Salynesmile@ClaudineGasana@ICEgov Rwanda is just trying to stay relevant. At the bottom of it Rwanda is a poor country whose natural resources are lies and self-victimization. By its actions in the DRC Rwanda has delayed African progress. It is not a model country, but a paraxitik one with nothing to offer
@SBatukwa With all Uganda pays to Kenya in port fees, it is lucrative for scum like this Mwenda to try and thwart peace in DRC. The EAC is heavily indebted and commanders in thievery know their power will be weakened without DRC. The DRC does not need these backstabbing neigbors at all
@Gad_d_sultan@OlivierKaserek6@EricLDaugh@DewTrolley Your game does not work.
When @elonmusk provided account transparency, he put a damper in the propaganda machine against the USA, DRC, Rwanda peace deal.
Everyone sees where you are based.