{"id":103560,"date":"2025-06-16T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/afc-m23-welcomes-monuscos-support-for-tension-relief"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:42:01","slug":"afc-m23-welcomes-monuscos-support-for-tension-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/afc-m23-welcomes-monuscos-support-for-tension-relief","title":{"rendered":"AFC\/M23 Welcomes MONUSCO’s Support for Tension Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Contrary to the disinformation and harmful propaganda of the Kinshasa regime, the meeting held in Goma on June 13, between the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) and AFC\/M23 delegations was constructive, rich and full of hope for peace.<\/p>\n

Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC\/M23) spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka stressed this Saturday, June 14, a day after rebel leader Corneille Nangaa held talks with Bintou Keita, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Head of MONUSCO. According a post on X, Keita declared that she came to Goma, the rebel held capital of North Kivu Province, \u201cin a spirit of listening\u201d and exchanging.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, we wish to alert the national and international community to the tragic fate of our Banyamulenge compatriots, victims of a hidden genocide and unspeakable acts of barbarity, including cannibalistic atrocities. The truth must now triumph over lies and manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

AFC\/M23 rebels have, many times, alerted the international community about the Congolese government\u2019s ceaseless attacks against the Banyamulenge community in South Kivu province.<\/p>\n

On numerous occasions, since last year, Kanyuka, has reported and described as \u201cterrorist actions\u201d operations systematically launched on various densely populated areas of South Kivu, saying these \u201cbarbaric attacks have caused countless human losses and plunged the region into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

End February, Kanyuka indicated that the Congolese government continued massacring civilians in Minembwe, Uvira, and surrounding areas in South Kivu Province, using attack drones guided by MONUSCO intelligence. At the time, villages inhabited by unarmed Banyamulenge civilians were targeted and destroyed by the drones, Sukhoi fighter jets, and mortars of the DR Congo army coalition in South Kivu Province, Bertrand Bisimwa, the rebellion\u2019s deputy coordinator, said a week later, on March 4.<\/p>\n

The Banyamulenge community has, in the past, petitioned the international community to intervene and stop brutal killings targeting them in South Kivu Province, to no avail.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. Contrary to the disinformation and harmful propaganda of the Kinshasa regime, the meeting held in Goma on June 13, between the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) and AFC\/M23 delegations was constructive, rich and full of hope for peace. 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