M23 rebels advance on DRC city of Bukavu

The United Nations is expressing deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south towards the DRC city of Bukavu on Thursday. The rebels, who have already captured the largest city in the country’s eastern region of Goma, say they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi is calling for a massive military mobilization against the rebels. VOA’s Esther Githui-Ewart spoke to Gavin Declan, the managing director of Exigent Risk Advisory in Nairobi, Kenya, for an analysis into the latest escalation of violence.
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[@Ducedaily]

Anyone saying “rwandan backed” automatically comes off as a propaganda agent

[@dionysian222]

Reality matters, it’s Rwanda backed because Congo harbours anti Rwanda rebels.

[@rretro2042]

This is the truth, this is not a government but a rebel group and rebel groups are backed by somebody.

[@warstory123]

exactly

[@anitakamau9842]

100©

[@FelixBisetsa]

100%

[@TruthIntel]

Rwanda is like the only success story in Africa and many people including some African are not happy about it. That's why they ignored the causes of the problem and keep shouting Rwanda, Rwanda, Rwanda .

[@petersonludoviko5007]

M23 is Congolese movement fighting for their own survival, Involving Rwanda is a distractive propaganda that was created recently by Kinshasa regime .

[@shukurumsebaloli]

Stop lies

[@KivuWaMinembwe]

Any body with some humanity who examines the plight of the Kinyarwanda speaking people of Eastern DRC would necessarily support M23, M23 are the only capable challenge to your activities and thankfully they are winning, they are our only hope. We will clean our streets secure our communities and build our country. Unless we take up arms against you, our wealth is our curse. We used to beg for mercy now with M23, we are safe and can live in peace, if in doubt, come to Bunagana, Rucuro, Masisi and now Goma.

[@AugustinRUSANGANWA-pl3ip]

So M23 is the one you blame instead of fdrl and drc militia the maimai who have been carrying out genocide against drc tutsi population, you don't even mention about this! Shame upon you.

[@tifarestravels]

This is propaganda automatically blaming Rwanda. They are too many groups fighting in DRC including mercenaries too. They all after minerals

[@shukurujeanpierre2034]

Tell people true story don't tell fake news , and shame on you to the refugees of Congolese who seeks their freedom

[@jeanombeni6553]

How far are they ? Since they have been going ?

[@emmanuelk.tambwe2628]

Mr. Felix made a crucial mistake by not putting priority of security on the eastern part of Congo...

[@navytune]

Two presidents have a (most likely recorded) convo on a critical issue. One confirms to the other that his men were killed by the FARDC and their multiple regional Allies (including FDLR genocidaires and hundreds of paid Romanian mercenaries). Said president also request that the other president provide safety and basic needs for the remaining troops that are defeated and don’t know why their are fighting. The next day, said convo between the two heads of state is publicly announced. However, the story has completely changed. The president making request to protect his men being killed for no reason, calls the other president’s army 1. a “militia” 2. blames it for the loss of his men 3. lies that he issued a warning of retaliation if it happens again… Now, if we were to put aside siding with our nations and actually use some brain cells! How can anything move forward when a leader of a country utterly misrepresents facts that were discussed in a conversation that is most likely recorded?

[@tifarestravels]

@@navytune why are not mentioning which Presidents? some people maybe don't know what happened

[@Melano12-2]

stop lies those troops were fighting on behalf of Genocides group who killed Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994

[@safarigilbert]

Ramaphosa is reacting due to the disturbance of M23 towards the black money from DRC's minerals!

[@Tickytacky2000]

Conflict Minerals will be flowing out drc in larger volumes in trucks, cargo planes or antonovs and handled in diverse ports in the african continent to gulf , asian and possible western countries to be traded, processed to finished goods

[@KivuWaMinembwe]

Why don't you interview someone who is in Goma, you deliberately ignore the facts, you fail to mention the failure of the foreign forces (UN forces) stationed in Eastern DRC on their 30 year money grabbing adventure. You say nothing about the failure of the DRC government, not even a mention of the reasons for M23 taking up arms in defense of their communities, the question is not whether Rwanda supports M23, it should be "why don't you all support M23? If you took a moment to examine the existential danger we have live with, you would have a different opinion, but you won't as you have to follow the narrative dictated by your evil employers who have no interest in the plight of the people of Eastern DRC or anyone for that matter.

[@sabiagenius509]

HRW and what Like Rwanda every one knows it, But the Rwanda problem if you associate with FDRL be sure you are against Rwandese existence. South Africa and Burundi deploy 2 different forces :SA one force is in UN another in SANDEK(along with Burundi,Tanzania and Malawi ) they where befitted along with Europeans mercenaries and therefor retained by M23. Burundi President sent a peaceful force in Easter African peace force(Burundi, Uganda,Kenya Tanzania refused to send peace force but send a com batting force which is still retained by M23(the war survivors but its diplomatic way is high than South Africa no trouble is still negotiating with rebels of M23). M23 is not of Paul K , they are not Rwandans, they are Congolese you know it but your EGO do not accept to say the truth.

[@AliMohamed-dc5vu]

Imagine that city is very rich in all kinds of minerals mainly the one used in mobile manufacturing but its people live in such situation in the sense that they live on humanitarian assistance provided by UNHCR. what a shame and disgrace to the African leaders 😢.

[@francisxavier3891]

They were not peace keepers please, they were fighting on one side

[@eastafricanist9156]

SANDF forces were abandoned by FARDC

[@KivuWaMinembwe]

Rwanda presents a real,... real,... real threat to your plundering business - you are all panicking as this is a serious threat to your bottom line. Africans doing business with each other is cause for an emergency security meeting to discuss immediate sanctions.

[@Lane1597p]

🐃🐃🐃🐃❤ గేదెలు శృంగారం వెంకట రెడ్డి పశువులు కాలేజ్ బడి ప్రేమ

[@richardlester8033]

Does Rwanda have legitimate concerns re it's own safety and security though?

[@sivad7631]

SADC is not a peacekeeper, this guy is not objective at all, all his speculations about international focus, he has no idea of the history of the region, He shouldn't be consulted again

[@anitastudios1859]

Give this man a Bell's. He is so knowledgeable. I think Kagame must resign. He has been such a destructive figure both in his own country n outside. The people of Ruanda must remove him immediately.

[@gaspard4336]

Darkness never chase out the light! The most popular president in Rwanda and outside Rwanda won't ever be removed but rather will be asked to keep leading the people who live him

[@mugace_250]

The more you #Hate him, The #Bigger We love Him❤❤❤❤❤❤ #PropagandistPuppets✌🏿.

[@GyuseMartyns]

Chelsea

[@GyuseMartyns]

Chelsea vs

[@tatsimboa6560]

This is nonsense how can you accuse somebody of backing a rebels then you still want the accuse person to provide I think the accuser should first provide evidence.

[@marientangu4274]

Blame on your colonial government,we are Congoleses if our existence was there before independence and nobody can deny our existence in masisi,ruchuru,saki,shaki,walikale…

[@ogfood9118]

Your toking bullshit

[@borismuneza6694]

You don't know what you are talking about as someone who was born near goma they should be asking me instead they are questioning some dude who learn the history by just reading books the so called "specialists of Africa"

[@samueldecat4497]

Who is this guy and what is he doing in kenya isn't he one of them i mean these people who are trying to still our resources so why do you give them interviews?? We all know they the DRC military is f ucked up so we all know where they are getting guns from because when M23 win one part they also gain guns tho you should also remember that the DRC soldiers are the lowest paid in the world so it's easy for them to sell guns last thing is M23 are Congolese not Rwandans so they will do anything to fight for their rights

[@Tonfis]

Tschisekedi call for peace kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJiVlZSDiJWSqtEsi=58BUvBZjPs-kvY0N