The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reached a new peak this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized the key trading hub of Goma, threatening to trigger an all-out confrontation between the two central African nations. We explore what’s behind the escalating tensions, and what the conflict means for the region’s mineral wealth.
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00:00 – Congo crisis, conflict deepens
01:27 – Congo, Rwanda history of conflict
03:19 – Role of mineral wealth in African conflicts
05:40 – Ray Power, Power Resources CEO on minerals, politics
06:32 – Thomas Matthews, CRU Analyst on impact of DRC’s cobalt export ban
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Rwanda expansionism dream in CONGO causing millions of congolese casualties over two decades for minerals control must be stopped
Getting the story spot on, Rwanda has created a global hurricane of damage
This conflict was started by belgium
The hatred against tutsis grew progressively from 1959 and culminated with 1994 genocide of tutsis
Then the ideologies crossed the borders
Minerals came finding people that don't get along
And m23 is the solution
The root cause is not minerals because.but the FDLR ideology in Eastern congo is the cause as MR Paul Kagame sid many times.
m23 are more disciplined than the government soldiers 😮😮😮
But why do we keep seing those white foreigne being invited to tell lies obout our history ?? Is africans not tired of this goons??
Like anybody cares how africa keeps effing itself ever since their independence
What had now seemingly been achieved (again, by "M23") is a serious disruption, destabilisation, displacement and economic damage that will keep eastern DRC unstable for the next 10 years. Well "positioned" to facilitate clandestine international sponsored mineral exploitation.
Why does the DRC government insist on continuing to support the FDLR?
It would be useful to see a holistic view of all the mineral resources and all international players instead of just using it against Rwanda so we can get a balanced view.
When the Rwandan General Kabarebe was the army chief of staff for DRC/CONGO and at the same time Kabarebe was the army chief of staff for Rwanda, they shared powers in the Kabira Senior government & the then M23, created Division 10 & this division infiltrated the DRC/CONGO governance and they weaked the DRC/CONGO government up to today, that's why tye president finds it hard to control DRC/CONGO because they infiltrated the system.
If Congolese government wish to expell those Rwandafone speaking Congolese in Eastern congo , they must expell them with their land 😢😢
Western media keep pushing a narrative of "minerals"… instead of asking why the M23 revolutionary movement is fighting against injustices done to them for decades.
In Congo they going ape or go primal.
# You covered Ethiopian Amhara genocide.
# 2nd Amhara fano and abiy Ahmed Prosperty war you covered on the line
This white man made sense on the situation if it’s not for the persecution of Congolese tutsis maybe they will be peace the Congo is a failed country very dangerous no liberty nothing..
Sorry but why let a white person give news about Africa?
That’s the FREEDOM His excellence the president of USA told us to vote him 😡😡🤦🏽🤦🏽
No mention of Russian/Chinese interests on one side, and the US and Allied forces funding the other side? No? Not going to go there?
The M23 are Congolese,
The matter is the discrimination among Congolese spread by Rwandan genocide criminals hosted by the government of Congo. As to hey did in Rwanda, they wanted to introduce such segregation among Congolese.
As most Congolese people who speak Kinyarwanda are not accepted as Congolese.
Another kind of segregation is ethnicity as compared to what was used in Rwanda while preparing and implementing the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
Let me curb by saying that what M23 rebels are fighting for is true. They need a peaceful country where all the best of country are equally shared as siblings of Congo.
People should not say that M23 are Rwandans, they are Congolese who are fighting for their own rights of having a country from which they were born.
I will come back!