Top U.S. diplomat Marco Rubio said Saturday that Rwanda had clearly breached the agreement it signed with the DRC in Washington last week, the latest attempt to end the grinding three-decade-long conflict upending the mineral-rich Congolese east. U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix also warned that the M23's advance "has revived the specter of a regional conflagration with incalculable consequences", and raised the possibility of the Balkanisation of the vast DRC. While denying giving the M23 military support, Rwanda argues it faces an existential threat from the presence across the Congolese border of ethnic Hutu militants with links to the 1994 Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis.
Published at: 2025-12-13 21:24:26
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