Each unit of the M23 is supervised and supported by the special bodies of the Rwandan defense forces “denounces the report to the UN Security Council of December 27 referring to the Congolese rebels of the March 23, which were preparing for a sensational offensive. The team of experts who monitors the situation on the field denounces that “at least three thousand-four thousand Rwandan soldiers remained deployed in the territories of Nyiragongo, Rutshuru and Masisi”, in the eastern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC).
Not only that: “The management of high -tech armaments by the Rwandan army were fundamental for the conquest of new territories”. The rebels, thanks to the direct help of Kigali, who dryly denied the strategic capital of the province of Kivu Nord dryly at the end of January, rekindling the conflict in the Congo at the end of January. Over the past 30 years, wars in alternate phases have caused six million deaths. Salvatore Attanasio, father of the Italian ambassador killed near Goma in 2021, has no half measures in his complaint: «The Rwanda, a small state like Lombardy invades a nation eight times bigger than Italy, but we pay little attention not being In Europe as Ukraine. And who wears Kigali? The same West, to such an extent that the m23, at the war, is better equipped with blue helmets ». In RDC the longest, numerous (over 10 thousand men) and disastrous mission of the United Nations has unfolded. The Congolese president, Félix Tshisekedi, defines it as “a failure that lasted over a quarter of a century”. Between unrealistic massacres, other African states involved beyond the Rwanda and the iron arm of the United States and China, the conflict from the East of the Congo risks expanding in a devastating regional war. Not only that: a little further north, the civil war in Sudan is “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, according to the African Union, with 12,510,544 refugees (three million fled to the South or in Chad) and 28 thousand deaths.
Also this scenario hides interests of small and large powers. On January 27, the rebels of the Congo river alliance led by the M23 entered Goma, the capital of the Kivu Nord, a million inhabitants and 700 thousand displaced people. Sultani Makenga is the military leader, who controls a territory of ten thousand square kilometers. The March 23 movement was born in 2012 from the amount of a military group that was to be integrated into the Congolese army. «It all started with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 from where two million hutu ran away including the death squads and the government army that had massacred the Tutsi. It has been an endemic conflict since then »summarizes to Panorama, Anna Bono, an expert from Africa. Goma’s socket cost 2,900 dead, according to the UN. Vivian Van de Perre, number two of the Mission of the Blue Monusco helmets, revealed that “a few hundred women detained” in the local prison “have all been raped” and Arso lives in the fire of the women’s section. The Kivu Nord has a strategic economic importance for its mining wealth starting with the fundamental colan for mobile phones, computers and missiles. The area holds between 60 and 80 percent of the world reserves of this mixture of columbite-anthalitis. The M23 has conquered the Rubaya website, the largest in the world for the extraction of Coltan, on April 30 of last year. Satellite photo of the UN show the load points on the trucks, directed towards the Rwanda, of 120 tons of mineral per month. The “tax” collected by the M23 varies between four and seven dollars per kilogram, which amounts to an average of $ 800 thousand a month, a significant figure for those latitudes. «The reasons for the conflict are manifold starting with the ethnic tensions, the numerous armed groups in the region (one hundred, editor’s note), to the role of neighboring countries such as Rwanda and Uganda. A component is linked to Congolese internal politics: the political wing of M23 would like to reach Kinshasa, the capital. “The predominant factor, to which all these events are connected, is the control of the territory and its wealth” highlights with Panorama, Marco Donada, deputy head mission of the NGO Medici without borders in Goma. The president of the nearby Burundi, Évariste Nrayishimiye, sent his troops to support the government, such as Tanzania, Malawi and South Africa, and claims that “if the Ruanda continues to conquer territories in another country (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ed.) The war will take a regional dimension ». In Goma, the Congolese army has dissolved, with the escape of the commanders, while 300 Romanian contractors, who gave strong gradually, were disarmed by the rebels who escorted them in Rwanda.
The President and Father-Father Ruandese, Paul Kagamewhich brought the Tutsi to the rescue after the 1994 genocide, managed to transform the country into African Prussia. United States, France and Belgium, while condemning the M23, have never imposed sanctions in Kigali. The European Union has brought mining and infrastructure agreements with Kagame and guaranteed 40 million euros to its troops to combat the jihadist onset in northern Mozambique full of energy resources. In this chess, China has been undermined by the United States, which together with the G7, focuses on the “Corridor of Lubito”, a crucial infrastructure, also for the Mattei Plan, which will transport Congolese mining resources (estimated at 24 thousand billion dollars ) Through Zambia and Angola, up to the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding the Rwanda. A little further north, Sudan has been overwhelmed by a bloody civil conflict since 2023 between the government army of General Abdel Fattoh Al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, called Hemedti, who leads the rapid support forces (RSF ), institutionalized paramilitary group in 2013. «There has not been in the world with the highest number of people at risk such as Sudan. After 22 months of war, the front lines are active as the first day and both parties do not have the slightest respect for civilians, hospitals and humanitarian staff.
For the first time in one hundred years we are also fighting in Khartum, The capital “underlines Vittorio Oppizzi, head of the Sudanese MSF programs. In January, the government regained the strategic city of Wad Madani, 200 kilometers south-east of Khartum. A highway hub, which connects different regions disputed, from where the refueling lines of the rebels could be cut towards the capital. Hemedti commented “we lost a battle, not the war”, but Joe Biden’s tail has arrived. On January 7, the US imposed sanctions against the head of the rebels and seven companies of the RSF in the United Arab Emirates. The Arabic state denies, but there are few doubts about the supplies of weapons to the rebels. In 2022 Abu Dhabi had increased investments in Sudan to six billion dollars for the construction of the port of Abu Amama, an alternative to the historian Port Sudan. The stakes are the 600 kilometers of Sudanese coasts on the Red Sea, which also affect other Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia. And it is no coincidence that Iran would have agreed for the supply of drones to the government army. On January 16, four days before Donald Trump’s settlement in the White House which could change the cards on the table, Biden also sanctioned the Al-Burhan General for the atrocities made by his troops who would have used chemical weapons. «The sanctions on the ground do not have a real impact. The crisis in Sudan remains forgotten. There is no international political will to get to an agreement. The same humanitarian aid are well below the actual needs »explains Oppizzi of MSF. As in Congo, the war is financed by the riches of the subsoil. Sudan is the 16th state in the world for the extraction of gold. Most of the mines are controlled by the RSF, which resell the precious metal on international markets, through Dubai. Alongside the rebels, Africa Corps operates, the Russians of the former Wagner, and on the other side of the barricade there would be the Timur units of Kiev’s intelligence. “In fact, it is impossible to avoid these bloody conflicts,” admits Anna Bono. “They burst or re -explode for the control of local wealth and also for the management of foreign aid and interests”.
