Listen I sympathise with Tshisekedi and his unwillingness to co-operate with rebels who are shamelessly looting what parts of the nation they control in service of an invading foreign nation but holy shit man, if you can’t win on your own (which evidently, you can’t) you’ve got to be willing to make concessions.
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!ping AFRICA
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For the uneducated/unknowing: the conflict is a result of the Rwanda genocide 30 odd years ago. The hutsi (I believe) who started the genocide after the assassination of the leaders effectively fled to the DRC. They would occassionally cause trouble for Rwanda and Uganda.
So both of these countries would occasionally send their own forces to deal with the rebel groups.
The new government was a lot more hostile to Rwanda and basically told them they could no longer operate in the country.
Rwanda got mad and it’s gotten to where we are now, they’ve backed several groups but one in particular called M23 has succeeded significantly since 2012. They now control a good chunk of eastern DRC which is very mineral rich, as big Rwanda itself.
Rwanda has intertwined their own soldiers through the M23 likely as a way to pull a Russian (little green men) and eventually have a referendum for eastern DRC.
Rwanda has very few resources, they are debt laden and despite all the feel good stories you will hear about them from the west their economy isn’t as good as it seems.
They have very few natural resources, pulling this off will likely mean securing their future long term.
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Listen I sympathise with Tshisekedi and his unwillingness to co-operate with rebels who are shamelessly looting what parts of the nation they control in service of an invading foreign nation but holy shit man, if you can’t win on your own (which evidently, you can’t) you’ve got to be willing to make concessions.
!ping AFRICA
1)
For the uneducated/unknowing: the conflict is a result of the Rwanda genocide 30 odd years ago. The hutsi (I believe) who started the genocide after the assassination of the leaders effectively fled to the DRC. They would occassionally cause trouble for Rwanda and Uganda.
So both of these countries would occasionally send their own forces to deal with the rebel groups.
The new government was a lot more hostile to Rwanda and basically told them they could no longer operate in the country.
Rwanda got mad and it’s gotten to where we are now, they’ve backed several groups but one in particular called M23 has succeeded significantly since 2012. They now control a good chunk of eastern DRC which is very mineral rich, as big Rwanda itself.
Rwanda has intertwined their own soldiers through the M23 likely as a way to pull a Russian (little green men) and eventually have a referendum for eastern DRC.
Rwanda has very few resources, they are debt laden and despite all the feel good stories you will hear about them from the west their economy isn’t as good as it seems.
They have very few natural resources, pulling this off will likely mean securing their future long term.