Could conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo expand across region? | Inside Story
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Hundreds of people killed and hundreds of thousands forced from their homes.
A weeks-long offensive by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is spiralling into a regional crisis.
The UN estimated last year close to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers are involved.
Kinshasa says the M23 armed group wants control of the region that is rich in minerals.
Rwanda denies supporting the rebels and says it has deployed troops to stop the fighting from spreading into its territory.
Leaders from southern and eastern Africa are trying to mediate between the two sides.
Will their efforts succeed?
Presenter: James Bays
Guests:
Nicodemus Minde, Researcher, East Africa Peace and Security Governance Program, Institute for Security Studies.
Crystal Orderson, Journalist, The Africa Report.
Yinka Adegoke, Editor, Semafor Africa.
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The first group that need to leave DRC should be UN
Useless guys
Then the weak Kenyan troops backed by the French government
@alexking2020 Get your fact right Kenya don't support that nonsense there but Kenya have a western puppet president all countries in DRC are looting gor minerals sorry DRC
Should be Rda! 30 yrs of invasion...
you mean south Africa? When was Kenyan in Congo?
Too many foreign interference in Congo! They’re the problem!
Everybody wants a piece of the big tantalizing cake!!!
African solutions for African problems!
So Rwanda should just let the historically Rwandese people in the East side of Congo continue to be allegedly discriminated for years to come for the reason that they are Tutsi Rwandans?
@ If you choose to live in a foreign country then you choose to live by their rules. These people have had plenty of opportunity to live in either Rwanda or the DRC according to the laws of their respective country. If you don't like it in the DRC, then they have been free to move to Rwanda for decades now. If you don't like it in Rwanda, then you can move to the DRC or anywhere else your heart desires. So that is not the real issue here. The issue is that Kagame wants the DRC's resources and does not want evidence that he has been stealing the DRC's resources to come to light for decades now. So, he created the M23 to try and hide his theft while he accelerates his program to grab the DRC's resources while he still has time left.
@@GenXerReacts brother, imagine minding your own business and then your land is separated using abstract borders installed by a white man. Does your historical land stop being yours from that day?
Should you move and go buy land some place else in the “right” country just because of a border
Very sad! I lived in the war exactly like this for 6 yrs...not even your enemy you can WISH this for. May PEACE PREVAIL BY GOD'S GRACE
What many rebroadcast jump is that Congo denied to give it's own people life by killing and denying them years and years
@@emmanuelhabimana5908 Amen 🙏
Expecting action from imaginary friends won’t help you or anyone else.
Dont worry. The western countries love you. All of you are christianity. They save you 😉 if you were muslim they would just watch what's going on as Gaza😉
@@osmanhafiften9655 what's happen in palestine and congo is not about religion but humanity
Why is the focus always on Rwanda allegedly backing M23, while ignoring the DRC's support for the FDLR? We’ve also seen how people in Goma are welcoming M23, yet no one is talking about that. Why the double standard?
And as for Kagame, he never threatened Ramaphosa with war. He simply pointed out how Ramaphosa has been misleading people by claiming that SAMIDRC was on a peacekeeping mission, when in reality, everyone knows they were sent to fight militias in Eastern DRC. And even then, their real focus was M23-fighting alongside other armed groups against them.
@@GaBlack-wo9vx , stop talking nonsense and propaganda’s for kagame, which Goma people welcomed M23? Are you made? Do u really know what those inonsence people are fessing? Everyone knows what going on there. Only pk lying all the world.
Thank you let idiots people understand
I asked a Congolese why not deal with other over 200 armed groups first, guess what she told me, she doesn't care as long as is not the Banyamulenge something like that, the hate or Tutsi.
When all logic fails, I am always on the side of whoever the West criticizes or opposes.
Therefore, I am with RWANDA, and where were all these voices months and years ago? All of a sudden these voices are so concerned just because Rwanda now has an upper hand. South Africa the honorary White country in Africa go EF yourself SA.
well said
This lady from South Africa is very superfluous in her analysis, and i realise that is the case with many of them from that area. The politics and conflicts of the great lakes and horn of Africa must be discoursed by analysts from these regions.
Why these all media houses never talk about +260 armed groups operating in DRC
Because the biggest threat is M23. M23 is Rwanda directly attacking a neighbor. So far, over 10 million died!
@brightlight7217 Honestly, do congolese realize that plus 200 armed groups in Kivu is bad for DRC and Rwanda and will never benefit DRC?
@@brightlight7217 And you know which of those 10 million people who died? Mostly are Banyamulenge or Kinyarwanda speaking people in that region.
@@brightlight7217 80% of the dead are the Rwanda speaking community who were slaughtered due to their ethnicity!
Many mercenaries.
Disappointed that instead of talking how to sold problems and the causes, Rwanda is becoming the talk
Rwanda is the cause of this chaos. Of course we are going to talk about this monster.
@@LuckyesseIgnoring the cause of the problem will never solve the problem. Our people have resided in that land since the beginning of time but yet our rights continue to be disregarded by the leadership. Negotiations or not, we will not continue to endure this pain and have our people scattered over the region in refugee camps. Who ever told you that you can eliminate a whole race or tribe lied to you
Am Tanzanian 🇹🇿and highly recommend everyone to leave Rwanda alone in this matter coz Rwanda is very innocent here 🇷🇼 Congolese government has been butchering banyamulenge so far and they have decided to attack back and things turn over.., so Congolese have to settle his internal affairs and treat every community equally.✌️
RDF & M23 killed more than 6 million congolese over the past 30 years
@@FreddyJLema m23 are Congolese fighting for their rights
Non of you are congolese and your imput is not important! Especially when it’s wrong🙄 support your people please do but refrain from commenting things that’s not right or true stop painting the Congolese government as ones that’s inapt because this war is greater than just africaine
I am a congolese and I never knew that a Tanzanian can also talk nonsense about us bantu Congolese
I am a congolese and I never knew that a Tanzanian can also talk nonsense about us bantu Congolese
SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THIS CONFLICT!!!!
same as Rwanda should stop backing m23
we cannot because we have mineral reserves where we benefit from there in DRC.. and it was the agreement from both the leaders of different nations, that we provide essential protection from rebels and other attackers and we get minerals cheap and raw.. we offer protection and they offer services cheaply
@@RSA-363 not only backing M23. Worse than that violating the sovereignty of DRC by inveding it's territory that is clearly a breach of international law
@@youngthabiso7673 South Africa does not need Congos minerals....trust me.
Why can't we wake up? Why is the West concerned about this problem we african need to solve our problems
for years, we have proven to the world that we are low IQ race that cannot solve problems. see the white mercenaries who were caught in Congo and given safe passage to Rwanda to fly back to Europe and America. Then the black African turn on the other black African to eat him up.
@@omarabrar5893 the west are the one who are sponsoring this neocolonial proxy war. Rwanda are being funding by the west so that the exploit and loot Congo natural resources on a cheap price.
West is concerned about it because they created it when they divided Africa in 1884
Because M23 shakes some big fish s interests
bkz they are the ones causing chaos to Africa, cooping with some poorly thinking leaders ! Africanist wake up!
South Africa militia is also working as mercenaries in DRC protecting mining sites
Because they're officially invited. Rwanda should mind its business to share power with hutu.
@@brightlight7217 use your mind to think. This conflict is on Rwandan borders, it concerns them more than it concerns South Africa. It's best you understand a conflict before jumping into it less you be on the wrong side of history
You talking nonsense, they from Europe from countries like Belgium, Germany and the likes, even the US
May God bless on Republic of Congo.....Poor souls 😢
At 11:38, you lied. Ramaphosa called the Rwandan army "militias," and President Kagame replied angrily; as any commander in chief would.
@@AnotherAl69 you Rwandese u don’t have chance buy attacking Goma now the whole Africa knows that you are not good nation
I am telling you , you will regret it . Soon no one from country will not be able to say that is Rwandase . Maybe in Europe where you belong
More like rebel in chief
@@zaheerdimala8625 what did you say??? I can't get you well. Rwandan army is the most complete army in central and eastern Africa. Wherever they are there is peace.
@mwitendepatrick5790 that's the problem of black people!
Are you then trying to say that UN has lied about them being in DRC!?
If M23 are not Rwandans, why is that concerning Rwandans?
Just take time to listen to Burundian President responding to this tension.
Kagame has years of success behind him, what does Ramaphosa have for a legacy?
Its European imperialism that caused this problem, like all the wars in Africa since decolonization.The M23 fighters are Congolese not from Ruanda as claimed by the government of DRC.They were displaced as a result of the scramble of Africa (which began after the Berlin conference in 1884) by European imperialists who separated ethnic groups in order to serve their needs
Yet Africans love Europeans.
Rwanda is powerful indeed. The more you talk about Rwanda, the more its power and capacity are recognised worldwide
I guess most of the AFRICANS have forgotten what happened to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi🤦🏾♂️
Time for an African country not permanently screwed like South Africa to rise up take the reigns of power and lead the future out of the status quo
We are banyamurenge ( kinyarwanda speaking people), we are fighting for our
Lives, our parents are in refugee camps in Many countries of east Africa including rwanda, this why Rwanda is accused to support banyamurenge (kinyarwanda speaking people from DRC) because one of the refugee camps is located in Rwanda.
Again, Banyamurenge people has relationship with Rwandaise because before colonisation, before Berlin conference of dividing africa banyamurenge were Rwandans after of Berlin conference they became Congolese.
But the government of DRC, they didn't care and take banyamurenge as Congolese.
After the 1994 genocide against the tutsi in Rwanda under the second republic of Rwanda, the killers fleed in eastern DRC where they currently kill and eat banyamurenge because they are tutsi who live in DRC.
So M23 is the youth of banyamurenge who is still fighting for their lives.
So Don't accuse Rwanda
Blame DRC government to kill it's own people .
The moment government of DRC failed to recognize and support This Tutsi Congolese Citizens who live in Eastern part of Congo that's when the problem started no wonder you hear Rwanda involvement in this conflict.wish long term solution could be found to end this suffering
They were welcomed and started taking advantage. This is shameful on Rwanda.
Those people should go to Rwanda a large number of them left Rwanda and went to Congo to escape the genocide and they never left. If that part of Congo didn’t have mineral wealth then I garantee they wouldn’t be fighting right now
Amen😢😢😢😢.
Rwanda is also involved because the rebels of FDLR (Made of Rwandan 1994 Genociders) are in that region backed by RDC , which they have the right to back M23 Congolese rebels since they are fighting the same enemies. Its like congo started a fire now wondering why its catching up to them.. but if they really wanted to fight for a peaceful congo they would have invested in their army forces in removing every army rebel groups operating across their country not just M23 ..
@ exactly the Congolese should’ve left them to their fate and maybe Congo wouldn’t be as destabilized now. But of course the Rwandans are allowing themselves to be used as pawns for the foreign countries who benefit from a destabilized deregulated Congo
Rwanda Host Morethan 100k of Tutsi thrown by DRC and their coalition genocide militias, Why International community left those Tutsi forced to leave their house, their cow killed and they lost everything, Rwanda will not be hub of Refugee, Tutsi in Eastern drc have right on their land
You are right and wrong if you can answer my question why in 1999 Rwandan and Ugandan forces fought against each other for control of Diamond rich Kisangani we can come to common ground as human beings.
Laurent Nkunda helped the RPF in the Rwandan civil war then helped Laurent Desire Kabila topple Mobutu then he rebelled against Kabila joining RCD Goma , did Retired General Kabarebe not orchestrate operation Kitona which is still being studied in military Colleges as a great logistical operation that failed due to lack of judgement about the Angola’s intervention in the 2nd Congo war?
@@GahimaRwa you are clueless my friend
@@kaisholeopard You want us to think you know al lot, but you are ignorant and poor in history.
The fact that Rwanda and and Uganda fought in DRC in 1999 does not mean anything Rwanda does is the same as 1999. This is 2025, with its own security challenges for Rwanda. Don't behave like a monkey that once it holds a banana, nothing can make it drop the banana. Think outside the box.
There have never been any genocide of tutsi in DRac stop talking nonsense
Present and past politicians in Congo have never been serious about ending the war in Congo!!!!
The first thing to do is to get rid of all the multinationals in their mineral rich areas!
💯👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Because Rwanda had infiltrated the governments and security systems in Congo, even in Uganda and Burundi. They're very belligerent. They use tutsi in those countries as Trojan horses.
Terrible conflict forgotten by the rest of the world
What Sudan 🇸🇩 or Myanmar 🇲🇲
because we black people are useless. we can't think. we can't solve problems. others have to solve everything for us. why will the rest of the world care about us???
@@jamesmurphy9426
West Papua has been fight freedom from occupation by Indonesia since 1948
it is the Westerners who started by dividing Africa in 1884 without considering their respective communities
Just like they did in 1994 genocide in Rwanda. I hope Kagame will not allow that to recur.
Animals are living better than humans 😢😢
After analyzing the issues in Eastern Congo for years, I became pessimistic about the two countries (DRC and Rwanda) finding solutions independently.
Political dialogue and mediation by a third party are the only solutions.
I don't understand why the Congolese government did not implement the Luanda accord by integrating the M23 militia into the Congolese army, as was agreed upon by all parties in the Angolan-mediated accord. That was a missed opportunity by the DRC side.
I also, as a Pan-Africanist, don’t understand why the Congolese government prefers to hire European mercenaries to fight against its people.
In any case, I doubt the Eastern Congo war will ever disappear as long as these factors are in place:
1. The Congolese government continues to be inefficient and corrupt, with politicians who enrich only themselves, while the Rwandan government continues to be very organized, efficient, and powerful.
2. The Congolese government continues not to respect part of its citizens, Rwandan-speaking Congolese.
3. The Congolese government continues to harbor the Rwandan rebels, mainly people who committed the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Respectfully
I agree fully with your sentiments. But the world just doesn't want hear that truth. For them it is easier to point fingers at Rwanda.
@@cmxdc1436 Pointing fingers is very easy. Even if Rwanda was located on a different corner of the continent DRC would be facing troubles simply because of those dammed stones and corrupt leaders.
Very well said!!!
Tribal mistrust. It's the disease plague Africa.
@@cmxdc1436 well it seems ur focusing purely on politics here but it leaves out the global context of supply chains which obviously rely on Congo. Rwanda likely has the sole incentive of accumulating its own wealth and power, all under subservience to foreign corporate interests.
M23 are Congolese fighting for their rights
@@niwamanyatrevor4645 Congolese should stop the ethnic profiling and focus on resolving the issues raised by different parties, blaming Rwanda is not a solution
There is no M23 , there is RDF - rwanda has officially occupied Congo
If the are Congolese but the people who are supporting them are from Kigali shame this is not going to work anymore
@@kibe3602stop talking nonsense
Idiot mxxm
Crystal Orderson has a good grasp of the situation in Goma
What will Rwanda do to stop congolese who want to take control of their destiny? You are giving Rwanda too much attention in my opinion. If Corneille Nangaa want to march to Kinshasa, how will Rwanda stop him? They have captured thousands of guns in Goma including heavy artillery, armed vehicles, missiles, even a Sukhoi 25!!!! Tell me how Rwanda will stop them😂😂😂😂😂 Even UN didn't stop them, how will Rwanda stop them?
Let's say Rwanda is our Father God who art in heaven ❤
A couple points of observation:
1. There is a lot of focus on Rwanda and M23. Very little if anything is said about FARDC working with genocidal forces FDLR and UN sanctioned Wazalendos. No or very little mention of the Mercenaries employed by Kinshasa which is an international law violation.
2. The humanitarian crisis is coming to end in North Kivu because M23 is taking control of Goma. Refugees were given safe passage to go back to their villages and will benefit from the protection of M23 soldiers.
3. President Kagame did not threaten Ramaphosa. He merely addressed the comments he and his government made. Rwanda says they want peace but South Africa and the DRC are wrongfully convinced this conflict will be resolved militarily.
4. Rwanda has called on for cessation of hostilities for more than 2 years now. The peace process was going in the right direction when the East African community forces were deployed in Congo. But Tshisekedi wanting to militarily defeat M23 brought on SADC which was an offensive force. Things only got worse from when South African forces went to DRC.
Lastly, tell Tshisekedi and his government to sit down with M23 leaders, listen to their grievances and settle this matter peacefully. Congo’s army is very weak anyways. They can’t win this war.
Exactly! Kudos for your moral clarity.
So true !
1. Where have you ever seen captured mercenaries on the field with suitcases, bags of clothes and some cheering with the captors and some wearing their expensive sunglassrs😂?....Beware of the media and use ur minds
The FDLR fighters fled to the DRC after the genocide in 1994. So 31 years, they are still there and how many times have they reportedly attacked Rwanda since? - IT IS NONE. Not to mention that there was a joint forces Rwanda--DRC to hunt for and scrash them during Kabila son reign.......This rhetoric is obselete
Paulie K is the lord of the rebels its in the historical record
If you believe in media 💯% it's your own risk all are corrupt just business 😂
The same strategy. The same thing that is happening in Haiti
Congoleses and Haitians have the same roots !
SADC is fighting teeth and nails for their mineral interest
DRC is a SADC land,
Why is South Africa forcing itself into DRC😂
Looting is the word
They want a piece of the cake😂😂
Its a UN peace keeping mission. Protecting women and children from the lord of the rebels....Paulie k
@@zaheerdimala8625 Thats what they say, so how possible did M23 came to take Goma without much problem?
@@makongorowassira6593because Rwanda is still getting missiles from it's partners. This war would last a day if it was just Rwanda against DRC. That's why sanctions must be applied
Since 1997, when Laurent Kabila waged war against Mobutu Sese Seko, the people of the former Zaire-now the DRC-have never known peace. The DRC is one of the richest countries in Africa, blessed with vast mineral resources. However, due to Western influence and support from neighboring countries that are looting its resources, peace remains elusive. These external forces continue to destabilize the country, exploiting its wealth while destroying the very people to whom these resources rightfully belong. The saddest part is that many of the youth, armed with guns and ammunition, do not even understand why they are fighting. They are killing their own people without knowing the true cause behind the violence.
Congolese government refused to protect Congolese Tutsis and these Congolese tutsis have been killed and chased way from their own land calling them that are Rwandas. I believe these Congolese Tutsis are fighting for their rights.
Not every Rwandan in the DRC is eligible to be granted Congolese citizenship!
Ignorance at its higest point!. DRC has many tribes schattered over 9 bordering countries and only the Tsutsis need protection and against who?. So M23 represents a tribe and this tribe want to go and topple the gvt in Kinshsa?.....who is fooling who here?
Where is the proof? Talking nonsense
Praying for peace all over the world.
Why can’t you people say “rebels” instead? Whoever is supporting them, all rebels have backers-known or not.
Just want to blame Rwanda
@@bernob7 It's not a rebellion, it's an aggression.
Because the international community is well read and well informed. Paulie k is the lord of the rebels
@@zaheerdimala8625 If they are well informed then what are they doing about Congo’s president vowing to attack Rwanda? Isn’t a declaration of war from a nation’s commander-in- chief serious enough? And how do you explain why a nation that spends so much on weapons and mercenaries keeps losing to a bunch of rebels (and their puny allies)?
@@BT-zw2ix And you don’t see “aggression” in the fact that Congo has unceasingly given sanctuary to the genocidal group FDLR that has an unresolved issue with Rwanda? How about aligning those very people with FARDC and parking heavy weapons and allied armies near the boarder with Rwanda? If we really want problems to be solved we have to honestly look at all sides.
Let's Support Our Local Country and Africa as Africans
Is it Rwanda supervising the destruction of Embassies in Kinshasa?
Great question
This embassy has been closed for long time ago and it should not be a place to hide french mercenaries !
Mais vous ne maîtrisez aucun concepts? The embassies were burned in protest of the countries refusing to sanction Rwanda.
@@moethemoon and what did that resolve exactly?
@ Obviously protests don't always resolve things. It's a way for populations to express their disaproval. duh!
One thing that is been overlooked here because of the humanitarian crisis. Goma on its outskirts has one of the world's most dangerous Volcanoes. This Volcano is deadly to all in the vicinity. Many western scientists from Europe and around the world have been monitoring this Volcano to give the residents an early warning system, but the Rebels have stolen and damaged most of the equipment. If that Volcano goes into an intense eruption phase over 2 million people could die this a very serious situation.
One crucial aspect that people must understand to grasp the situation in the DRC is the collaboration between France, Mobutu, and the former Rwandan government (ex-FAR). After carrying out the genocide against the Tutsis, ex-FAR fled to the DRC without being disarmed, intending to regroup and recapture Rwanda.
During that time, they began spreading genocidal ideologies and massacring thousands of Tutsis who had been living in the DRC. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were forced to flee, spending nearly 30 years in refugee camps. Meanwhile, the DRC government has continued its collaboration with the FDLR-a genocidal force-to this day.
Many of those in M23 today were born in refugee camps. Their entire lives have been spent waiting for UNHCR support, which amounts to barely $5 per month-money they must stretch to cover food, clothing, and all their basic needs. Imagine that. 😭😭
Yet, some-including the DRC government-choose to view this conflict solely through the lens of mineral resources. Do you really think these young people in M23 care about minerals? Or do they simply refuse to let their families and future generations suffer the same fate they did?
How can this problem ever be solved if it continues to be reduced to a fight over minerals?
These young people will accept support from anyone willing to help them fight as long as their issue remains unresolved diplomatically and in the right way.
The president of South Africa is the problem here calling a military of a country "militia" instead of trying to solve the problem, he has picked sides. "peacemakers" stand in the middle, don't pick sides in a conflict.
please let him keep talking, he should be operating as peacemaker not side supporter, and it's bcz they looking for mineral interest, u're messing with people's lives
@@MugishaEmmanuel-g9f yes
Until all the minerals are depleted, then wars in Congo will cease.
Rwanda 🇷🇼 is slowly turning into a pariah state among its fellow African nations.
😢"M23 are citizens of the DRC, so stop spreading lies about things you don’t fully understand. If you truly understood what M23 is fighting for, you would support them. All you care about is seeing chaos and war in the DRC so that you can exploit its resources for your industries. You don’t even have compassion for the refugees who have been in Rwanda for over twenty years."
M23 is fighting for their rights to be treated or taken as other Congolese.
Listen this , if DRC throw Rwandafon people to Rwanda and Rwanda throw to DRC, where that people stand?
Dear Africans don't be blinds, . Let unite, love each other, empathy
Vive Rwanda 🇷🇼, Vive Paul Kagame, Vive Rwandafon, Vive East African, Vive Africa
No, as Kenyans, we are not interested in conflicts. After covid, we are trying to put back our economy back to upwards trajectory growth.
"Peacemakers" don't take sides otherwise you will part of the problem. that's what DRC wanted Kenya to do, being part of the problem rather than finding a peaceful solution of a decades or even over decades of chaos.
A jazeera Inglish i think you need correct what you said Rwanda rebels 😳
In Kivu ( Congo)majorly speak RWANDA language i
& the Gvment of Congo denied Rwandan speakers to be in Congo
So i think you need learn more about the regions
Tks
Shisekedi was with the m23 before he ascended power..later betrayed them,tried to have them massacred. He knows only too well there's no room for negotiations..he's now hiding behind the phrase of 'I will not negotiate with terrorists' as he shops around for assassins to finish what he started 😢
@@enaz283 That’s what many should talking about at this time. Why did he make deals with them and then later turn again them? In a way it’s as if it’s a personal grudge between Tsisekedi and the Tutsi soldiers he tried to finish off.
You are are playing the the same video with few change
All those players in one country??
Are we serious?
This whole saga won't play well with all of you thinking Paul Kagame is in the wrong.
He may have his faults, but he has a reason as to why they may support the M23.
M23 has a just cause, fighting for their rights
Sure Jane.
Dear Jude, your work is great thank you for sharing a true picture of the conflicts in the Eastern DRC. In terms of economic benefits, I think there are many other countries in DRC for this reason, some from the continent including South Africa, Burundi and other European countries. Moreover, you are ignoring the fact that DRC has been supporting FDLR in disrupting the security of Rwanda over the years!
How are these rebels well armed than Rwanda forces themselves 😮
They get them from congo military once they run way
Let’s look back in past years.Tshisekedi knows all too well that on March 23 2009
the DRC government entered into an agreement with the people of Kivu to incorporate their militant groups into the Army and Police and to incorporate their leaders into political positions. A pact that was never honored hence the name M23
Everyone rushes to claim Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, why don't you educate the world that these are a marginalized Congolese community who have been persecuted and murdered and their mineral wealth stolen by the UN for years
The Kivu region has seen over 6m murdered, killed in the last 20 years and this humanitarian crisis has been ignored by the world because the UN peace keepers were too busy stealing minerals!
The DRC government went as far as hiring Romanian mercenaries to keep this community of their fellow humans, their own citizens in captivity. This is a serious humanitarian crisis such that over 100,000 of this community fled to Rwanda and over 300,000 fled. this community fled to Rwanda and over 300,000 fled to Uganda
That's who M23 is and no one wants to share this truth because the West is involved in killing then and looting their minerals. Shouldn't the DRC goverment be protecting them? Aren't they humans that deserve protection and basic facilities from the government ?
Even when they have formed themselves into a militant group the same discrimination against them continues and they're labelled "Rwanda-backed" rebels as an identifier, as a minority ethnic grouping mind you that is also found in Rwanda and we're victims of the 1994 genocide
Was the DRC Government slowly executing a genocide on the M23 ?
The Hypocrisy of the West in the DRC Crisis
The ongoing crisis in Kivu and Goma has once again exposed the deep-seated hypocrisy of the Western-backed DRC government under Tshisekedi. While backed DRC government under Tshisekedi. While MONUSCO and SAMIRC operate under the guise of peacekeeping, they have stood by as the Congolese government systematically killed and deported Tutsi ethnic groups from Kivu to Rwanda purely based on their ethnicity. This ethnic cleansing has gone largely ignored by the same international actors who claim to champion human rights.
The recent capture of over 288 European-sponsored mercenaries in Goma raises serious questions about European complicity in this humanitarian disaster.
Western nations, while publicly condemning regional conflicts, are clearly playing a direct role in fueling violence in the DRC. At the same time, Kagame's involvement in their capture and his growing frustration with the UN and France suggest he may indeed be backing the M23 rebels-not necessarily out of expansionist ambitions, but possibly out of sheer exhaustion from the lies and double standards of international players.
Several investigative reports have already exposed the UN's role in the looting of DRC's mineral wealth, multinational corporations to profit from the bloodshed. Instead of maintaining peace, the UN's presence in the DRC seems to be more about resource extraction than conflict resolution.
As this crisis unfolds, one thing is clear: the West's selective outrage and continued exploitation of African resources remain unchanged. The people of Kivu and Goma are paying the ultimate price for a conflict that is, in many ways, externally engineered.
Very good description---
But I wonder why people think the UN should be harsh on Rwanda, yet they forget that other countries should also be considered. For example, South Africa should not continue deploying its forces to the Rwandan borders for the sake of Rwanda’s security. The DRC should also disarm the FDLR militias, and Burundi should withdraw its forces. Some people speak as if they are watching a movie, but those on the ground can see that South Africa and Burundi are mobilizing their forces near the Rwandan border, which is also alarming for Rwanda.
Population of North Kivu is 8 million, population of South Kivu is 7 million, total 15 million. Population of Rwanda is 15 million, Tutsi's are 3 million and population of Burundi is 15 Million, Tutsi's are 3 million too. Population of Tutsi's in Rwanda and Burundi combined is 6 million, something doesn't add up here. The population of the whole DRC 100 million. How could 6 million Tutsi's give 100 million Congolese problems ? Mark you, Hutus wouldn't join Tutsi's in there expansion mission, infact the Hutu led government in Burundi has an army fighting for the government of DRC so it's only allegedly Rwanda fighting with its 3 million Tutsis, so who is fooling who here?
Before Kagame, the Banyamulenge were being killed as the world watched, by their own government. When Hutus committed genocide in 1994, they ran to DRC, and joined the effort to try to exterminate the Banyamulenge. Having stopped the genocide in Rwanda, Kagame of course has to ensure that the Tutsis in the Eastern DRC are not massacred, just as it happened to the Tutsis in Rwanda. That is the difference. Before Kagame, Tutsis were being killed without anyone doing anything. After Kagame took power, the Tutsis are still being killed, but at least they have a state actor trying to protect them. How can people then blame Rwanda, as the world sits on its hands doing nothing to end the attempted genocide of Tutsis?
In the war we don't look how many personnel do you have , what matters is what capacity do you have interms of weapons ✌️✌️✌️
Exactly my message ...we are just being fooled
@zitongwang6278 if its that case then in all sense ..we expect DRC to have proper weaposn looking at it's gDP
Your argument assumes wars are fought based on population size, which is incorrect. Military strength depends on organization, strategy, and funding-not sheer numbers. Rwanda, despite its small Tutsi population, has a highly trained army and backs rebel groups like M23, which destabilize eastern DRC.
The issue is not about Tutsis as a whole but Rwandan-backed militias exploiting the DRC’s resources. Reports show Rwanda benefits from minerals smuggled out of Congo. Additionally, Rwanda uses the presence of FDLR (a Hutu rebel group in DRC) as justification for military involvement.
Burundi and Uganda have their own interests, and the conflict is driven by political and economic motives, not just ethnicity. The question isn’t "how can 6 million Tutsis fight 100 million Congolese?" but how a well-organized force can dominate a divided and resource-rich region.
No, it will definitely not escalate.
DRC government is the cause of this disaster..let the Govt admit and recognise Congolese Tutsis and have over genocide fugitives to Rwandan government,who fled to Congo after the genocide.😮
The U.S and other European countries provide military equipment and training support to M23 through Rwanda, and turned a blind eye to the rebel happening in DRC.
If the M23 take over the eastern part of DRC where natural resources are abundant, western countries can import them more easier by Rwanda providing them with low prices.
Western also are doing exactly same as what Russia did to Ukraine. And media and the world blame on Russia’s behaviors only.
Rwanda will remain comfortable ❤❤❤
Until when?
Well you are not free because you live under the lord of the rebels ....Paulue k
Not a chance. Rwanda will become Africas Ukraine...
@@kreasenchetty stop lying to u'r self dude
By stealing minerals from DRC
The conflict in eastern DRC risks regional destabilization. Foreign involvement, ethnic tensions, and resource exploitation fuel unrest.
Without urgent diplomacy, spillover could inflame neighbors. The AU and regional powers must act swiftly to prevent wider instability and humanitarian catastrophe...
Did one of them just call the Hutus the Houthis lmao 😅
lmao... it's the ignorance for me
@ it’s not impossible to just be slightly informed lol.
Why entire Congolese has never raise their Voices until M23 fight for their rights.
Please, these peoples need reconciliation, united, love for each other. they need help, we are all children of God
Here in America we have
china town
Mexico city
Korean town its common to have people from outside to settlers over period of time congo just recognize tutsi congolese then peace will prevail
@ its2shawty, did you fall for the rwandan propaganda? There are a lot of tutsis fighting on the side of the congolese army. And others present in the congolese government. Even the army chief of the Congo army in kivu province is a tutsi called Masunzu. So tutsis are well recognised in Congo as one of many ethnic groups. But rwanda thinks those tutsi should be having their own territory in Congo controlled by rwanda and chase away other people from that tutsiland. We also have tutsis living in uganda recognised as an ethnic group and they speak kinyarwanda. We have people in Tanzania who speak kinyarwanda. And we have tutsi living in Burundi and they speak kinyarwanda version from there that we call Kurundi. Do you agree with rwanda to attack and control all those sides of africa?
You don't eat people in America, i guess,, some people in congo eat tutsi people
@@b-jo Tutsis are just a kind of bones walking around, they have no flesh on them to eat. Don't vou believe me? Look at your skeletor Kagame .
@benc9059 There are genocide survivors who you took out fetus of the unborn babies and ate them..there were witnesses...The good Lord kept hos people to tell what happened. You thought you would exterminate everyone. OK, then how about in 2021 while the CHOGM was going down in rwanda, rwandafone in congo, were eaten on camera by locals? Check that out.. you know it, that's why you are referring to skeleton. That means if he was fleshy, you would eat?? Sorry, we don't dine with creatures of that kind.. that's why it's the tutsi who shall silence the guns, you guys like killing, cursed about what you did in rwanda.. NEVER AGAIN
in tutsi culture actually that's the ideal size.. no man should have a physique like for a woman, that's why you can barely fight in war. Men don't have time to gym they would rather look after their cattle.. can you get milk out of a 🏋️♂️? Waste of time..
ITS A DISGRACE AND A CURSE THAT THEY ARE KILIN EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF UNITE AGAINST THEIR REAL OPPRESSORS.
Why’s none talking about Uganda’s involvement in this war? Uganda is supporting M23 on the ground for 30% and Rwanda 70%
Evidence?
MUHOZI always says, Kagame is his uncle !
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@benc9059 and you call this an evidence?
Why don't you go back and review ur sources and numbers
IAM M23...
UN, SADC, FDLR' should quickly leave DRC as soon as possible because you can't mix ethnic with minerals.
Kagame must negotate with FDLR
Leave Rwanda alone drc should handle their internal issues without blaming friendly neighbours 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
@@normanchepkwony4795 Idiot!!!
@@normanchepkwony4795 Where do you see the DRC internal issues here?. 1.M23 is a movement backed by Rwanda the shiel the looting of minerals of DRC. 2. Are the FDLR fighters? How many times have they attacked Rwanda since the genecide? And how have they killed since the M23 since they ve been entering thr east of DRC? None - this Kagame rhetoric is obselete.
3. How is it that Rwanda becomes an exporter of minerals that are found in its soil?
Rwanda is not friendly. DRC can only tackle its internal affairs if all foreign forces live! Kagame is one of them!
Nowadays Rwandese has place in ruto regime only . Ruto+ kagame = killer, lier,thief….
@@SoulUpliftIgnitingInspiration Is it Kagame who killed Lumumba
This is what you ignore every day. Why don’t you ask yourselves why M23 was created instead of only asking who supports them? This prevents a lasting solution. M23 are Congolese, and they need peace.
I heard M23 leader in an interview. His story made sense. I completely understand why M23 are fighting now.
By some counts, more than 40 regional conflicts raging in Africa right now. It is becoming difficult to provide enough humanitarian aid to the World in flames.
@@billybud9557 we don’t need Aid. We have enough minerals to take care of Africa just leave us alone to govern our country
@@fboadi1 Totally agree. CIA out of Africa. Nothing good has happened there since the Colonial period.
Everyone should leave DRC government deal with M23 then they will see the need to find a solution instead of what is going on now, where there are too many forces that a protecting the DRC government that dont take serious of the M23 demands.
These are internal issues that need to be addressed by Congolese themselves
Dear Al Jazeera
Africa is not like middle East where there is regional war m23 started in 2009 . Africa has alot to deal with war is not our priority thank you
M23 have not killed any civilian in GOMA those one killed were the SA Soldiers coz GOMA is a home of M23 they have united to stop the kilings and relocating of the tutsi in goma by the congo goverment Rwanda as a nearby country the arre protecting rwanda teritory not to allow the war to come to their side but they are not supporting any M23 . M23 has a leader and he has matched forward not hiding his face if the world wants to know any thing they should question him corneille nangaa not kagame
Kagame was considered an african statesman a few months ago... Now they say he's evil
Congo treat thier problems and citizens right and stop accusing Rwanda. Media is a mess trying
Rwanda are mineral thieves.
Ramaphosa doesn't have to stick his nose in the East Africa issues
@@Welbeck_zambia As Africans we had expected any South African adult to understand what it means to fight oppression in your own country. Especially ANC should know better. But alas, we humans are strange creatures. We are the most destructive species on the planet.
Kagame is a killer
@bene28april he is better than our politicians that kill through corruption
His country is a mess...so, he is trying to feel useful somewhere else...playing the "peacemaker"
@@bene28april what exactly is your point here?
All external forces should including SANDF should leave immediately. The next thing to do is to establish diplomatic channels and convince Tshisekedi to accept negotiations with M23. RDC gov must stop its hated speeches and diabolic M23. Congo must stop blaming Rwanda for all their problems.Tshisekedi has been manipulating Ramaposa to take his sides, this needs to stop too in exchange for a transparent diplomatic relationship
It shameful to have expert say that after 30 years they’d have thought lang of the Tutsis would have died. What kind of experts are these
DRC is a failed state. Please stop supporting DRC propaganda about Rwanda
Wasnt Kagame the one who didn't show up to the last mediated talks...
Because the discussions did not include real issues, but mediators wanted the parties to sign. You don't sign documents just for the sake.
@@dukakisomondi8552all parties have to be involved.
Trying to solve Congolese problems without involving Congoles people, remains a paradox!
Africa should sort itself out. One moment you’re kicking out France from the Continent. The next moment you’re asking them to use their influence
NONE NEEDS FRANCE MILITARY HELP OR PRESENCE IN AFRICA, BECAUSE FRANCE PILLAGES THE MINERALS AND IS BACKING TERRORIST GROUPS !
FRANCE DELIVERIES WEAPONS AND LEGION-TROUPS TO RWANDA AND WHY ??? NOT ONLY FRANCE; THERE IS ALSO THE USA , UK, UN-MISSION-TROUPS (MONUSCO) AND OTHER EU CONTRIES INVOLVED IN IT.
ALL OF THEM ARE NOT WELCOME ANYMORE AND MUST QUIT THE DRC !
Nobody has asked them for assistance
@@hendricaoduba6028 Congolese minister was practically begging!
The west never help African. And we don't need the west to solve that problem.
The African need to get the west out of DRC.
Let me ask one question Do y’all think that putting pressure on Rwanda will bring a long term solution’s ??? Let’s just be honest, remember what happened in 2012 ? They put pressure on M23 but it didn’t help .
Remember M23 has been in a refugee camp for a long time , and they have families in different camps ! Do you think bringing a lot of soldiers in DRC to fight M23 will help ? Big No . Let’s try to get a long time solution, instead of accusing Rwanda every time .
When Rwanda stops supplying bullets to M23. Then we will stop accusing them of supplying bullets to M23.
Not sure if the name is Cristal Audison, but you got your facts mixed up. It is not Tshisekedi who was missing in Luanda on 15 December. It was the Rwandan president. Please check your facts. There are lots of lies and deceptions going around on this issue: For example Museven is really unfair to ask DRC to talk with M23 and taking the posture that Tshisekedi must negocite *directly with M23* as dictated by their master Paul Kagame. Ok lets analyse that:
1. What message will that send to other armed groups? Will it not be that they just also need to have strong military support (from somewhere), terrorise communities in Congo and kill a lot of innocent people to force the government to talk to them and give them what they want? Can you imagine if two other groups take the same approach? Where will Congo be?
2. What evidence do biased people like Mr. M7i (a staunched supporter of PK) have that the M23 *represents the interests of Banyamulenge* or at least the majority of Banyamulenge? Who voted them to represent banyamulenge? Rwanda? What about the majority of Banyamulenge who remain in Congo or are in other countries? You just get a neighboring country to support you and claim to represent some supposedly oppressed community and it must just be swallowed blindly? Like that? Are people thinking or what?
3. Why does M7 and his cabal refuse to consider the massive documented atrocities and war crimes committed by M23 to the point of being designated by the UN as a terrorist organization? What is this madness that Tshisekedi must be forced gociate directly with M23?
Even Museven himself would never do that. May be he despises the the Congolese President and thinks he is stupid.
That will be swicide for Tshisekedi and the beggining of the end of the congolese nation. In principle, President Tshisekedi must refuse any direct negociations with these terrorists. They must lay down their arms and make their demands there after.
@@testallthingsfirst5333 Thanks for posting a clarification. Since it’s clear that you really care about what happens in DRC, how do you explain the very existence of the many rebel armies in a nation that has a very big GDP, can afford to sustain a large army and even capable of paying off Burundi and European mercenaries? What do you say about the evidences of government soldiers and allied armed groups setting up roadblocks to tax local populations, maim and kill so many of them even while not in times of war? Aren’t you projecting their crimes and those of FDLR to the M23? Blaming them for making DRC government look bad is one thing, but assigning those crimes to them seems a bit disingenuous.
@@testallthingsfirst5333
Whatever you can talk about, the truth is there are hundred thousands of congolese in Uganda , Rwanda,Kenya … for 3 decades. Those people were chased away by Congo government calling them Rwandese, though eastern DRC land Belongs to them.
Whoever can back the up or support them, I don’t mind it . If Congolese government doesn’t need confrontation and they need to address those Congolese issues and bring them back to their motherland. If that happens would Rwanda keep supporting M23???? There won’t be M23 no more.
I know you will argue about those People being Rwandese, I will send you to document and educate yourself about African history and partition of africa.
Thank you
For me I think the solution would be That congolese government could recognize those people and bring them back from Refugee camps. This will solve all the issues that Congo have today. But I wonder why Government of DRC always miscommunicate the issue
@@agapejackson5328 None of this justifies a neighboring country attacking another and killing more than 15 million people. Black on black violence breaks our hearts as South Africans and that is why we sympathise with Congolese. A friend of mine sent me extracts from *the UN mapping report* and it is very sad to read. What Rwanda has done in Congo for the last 30 years is a far greater human tragedy *than even the Jewish holocaust* and I understand there are books written about *the congolese holocaust.* It must just stop for Africa's sake my friend.
Its amazing that 6 million innocent jews were murdered and we commemorate it every year in their memory but *more 15 million Africans killed in Congo over the last 30 years* are not even mentioned. It boggles my mind.
@@bernob7 this is the African tragedy my brother/sister. Obviously poor leadership led to mismagement of the Congo's vast resources. However, none of this justifies a neighboring country attacking another and killing more than 15 million people. Black on black violence breaks our hearts as South Africans and that is why we sympathise with Congolese. A friend of mine sent me extracts from *the UN mapping report* and it is very sad to read. What Rwanda has done in Congo for the last 30 years is a far greater human tragedy *than even the Jewish holocaust* and I understand there are books written about *the congolese holocaust.* It must just stop for Africa's sake my friend.
Its amazing that 6 million innocent jews were murdered and we commemorate it every year in their memory but *more 15 million Africans killed in Congo over the last 30 years* are not even mentioned. It boggles my mind.
@ You are right. I appreciate the way you said what you said. Many forget that even much earlier King Leopold of Belgium had about 10 million Congolese killed and thousands of others maimed for failing to meet the daily quota of what they had to extract for him. So it’s a tragedy. How to get out of it is the tricky question. I only just don’t agree with many narrow answers, and the blame games that go on around our countries.
Panel of experts 😂😂😂😂😂
In the suggestions made, there is a clear colonial mindset. Rather than looking at the issues and clearly defining the root causes of the conflict, the speakers are pointing fingers and threat with western sanctions. I disagree with this way of looking at complicated and complex issues
Very true.
The host is asking only surface level questions instead of diving deeper to the real questions like whether M23 demands are legitimate and whether the rebels are indeed Congolese.
We are africans , and we want to see peace in this Country, this richest Country in the World, so free Congo. M23🫡🫡🫡
Congo's president tshekedi decision to demand the east African peace keepers withdrawal from goma was a big blunder, with rwanda landlocked
Hey bro, what's the situation now?
But look at how poor people living in the area
You see 😢😢😢.
And look at how your looking at those peoples from your phone. Your phone has battery-colbolt-Nickel-Zinc-Congo.
they deserve it. black africans deserve everything evil that is befalling us. we are lazy people. we refuse to come together and solve problems. i have no sympathy for us.
Its not Rwanda backed Rebels..
Its not Rwandan people..
Stop the confusion
An RPF propagandist here.
There's a lot of evidence that Kagame has been supporting M23 (according to UN "experts" who have investigated the issue), yet continually denied it.
These denials etc, are contributing to the distrust of Kagame. Even people who were close to him and fighting alongside him in the past say they're aware that he's supporting M23
That doesn't explain why the M23 has more modern arms than the FADRC and most of those are similar to what the Rwandan military uses...
@@briopalumpus8676the problem is why Rwanda is able to backs M23 , think about it
And DRC is supporting FDRL genocidal who are killing Congoleses tutsi and believes that DRC will help him to come back to Rwanda
The simple solution is direct negotiations between DRC and M23
What evidence is there for this rumors against Rwanda
Where was Laurent Nkunda put under house arrest? Gisenyi Rwanda, Bosco Ntaganda handed himself over to the US embassy in Kigali Rwanda so what more evidence do you need.
Retired General Kabarebe commanded the infamous operation Kitona to try take over Kinshasa from the his former ally Laurent Desire Kabila, only for Zimbabwe to stop them in Kinshasa with Angola retaking Kitona, Namibia entered the war too, who were RCD Goma?
Rebels backed by Rwanda, while Uganda backed MLC led by Jean Pierre Bemba, why did Rwandan and Ugandan forces fight to control diamond rich Kisangani in 1999? It’s embarrassing to defend such rhetoric that Rwanda was or isn’t involved in the Eastern DRC since the 1st, and 2nd Congo war to this M23 conflict.
there are no rumors rwanda has occupied congo and aiming the same game they did in 1996 by installing Kabila
Kagame admitted that minerals from Congo transit through Rwanda.
Figures from the US Geological Survey show that Rwanda's coltan exports rose by 50% between 2022 and 2023. Rwanda don’t have such raw material in their country, minerals exports from Rwanda are now over a billion dollars a year.
@ There’s 4000 Rwanda troops fighting alongside M23 in Goma.
all international military should first get out including UN nothing they give is worthy
All about the Minerals !
the conflict is just a smoke screen for stealing minerals
M23 are citizens of the DRC, the natural resources in the DRC also belong to them, M23 Equals freedom fighters
M23 Equals🚶🏾♂🚶🏾♀ Congolese Tutsi Citizens
Discriminations against a Tutsi Africans should be discrimination against all...People should Understand