{"id":110191,"date":"2025-09-17T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/an-open-letter-to-dr-congo-fix-kinshasa-not-kigali"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:03:06","slug":"an-open-letter-to-dr-congo-fix-kinshasa-not-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/an-open-letter-to-dr-congo-fix-kinshasa-not-kigali","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to DR Congo: Fix Kinshasa, Not Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Dear Congolese,<\/p>\n<p>Someone once said: \u201cIf there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.\u201d You have been told to look across your borders, to blame Rwanda, to believe that your suffering comes from elsewhere. Yet most of your problems are caused by your own leaders who choose greed over people, corruption over progress, and excuses over responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, my Congolese brothers and sisters, is Rwanda responsible for the betrayal and assassination of Patrice Lumumba? Was Rwanda behind Mobutu\u2019s three decades of kleptocracy? Is it Rwanda that welcomed the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and gave them shelter and allowed them to regroup \u2013 and spread a poisonous genocide ideology \u2013 on your territory, and destabilize the region? Should Rwanda be blamed for the Congo Hold-Up scandal? Does Rwanda steal the money meant for hospitals and health systems, leaving your families to die from Ebola, cholera, and malaria?<\/p>\n<p>Is Rwanda responsible for the shame of the N\u2019Djili Airport blackout that delayed your president\u2019s plane for 40 minutes just across river Congo, one of the world\u2019s greatest rivers? Or for the bad incidents in September 2025, when your own citizens destroyed Kinshasa\u2019s stadium after losing a football match against Senegal? Is Rwanda responsible for Congolese children dropping out of school, or for the fact that 62% of your people living on less than $2 a day despite your country being one of the richest in minerals? Is Rwanda behind your army\u2019s failure to defend your land from more than 200 armed groups? Is Rwanda responsible for your former Justice Minister being convicted of embezzling funds earmarked for prison construction?<\/p>\n<p>No, dear Congolese. These are your own failures.<\/p>\n<p>Some of your own people already know the truth. An activist in Goma asked: \u201cWe are tired of Kinshasa blaming Rwanda. Who in Kigali stole our hospital money?\u201d A teacher in Kasai said: \u201cI have not been paid in six months. Yet ministers drive new cars. Is Rwanda my employer?\u201d A displaced mother in Ituri wondered: \u201cThey say it\u2019s M23, but who protects us from our own soldiers who steal our food and abuse us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Che Guevara, after seven months in your country, concluded: \u201cThere is no discipline, no unity, no leaders. No one can free them if they don\u2019t free themselves first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dear Congolese, you deserve leaders who put the people first. You deserve another Patrice Lumumba, a visionary leader who puts people before power. Just as Burkina Faso rediscovered Thomas Sankara through Ibrahim Traore\u0301, DR Congo too must demand leaders who value discipline, accountability, and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>You deserve a health system that heals, not steals. An education system that empowers, not abandons. An economy where your minerals build roads and hospitals, not villas overseas. An army that protects civilians, not preys on them. And a justice system that delivers truth, not verdicts for sale. Instead of wasting energy hating President Paul Kagame, perhaps you should pray for a Congolese leader with his seriousness and vision. Imagine if you had such a leader? Today, DR Congo would be an ideal place that shows what paradise looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up, dear Congolese. The enemy is not Kigali. The enemy is the refusal to fix Kinshasa. The day you take responsibility, DR Congo will rise. But not until then.<\/p>\n<p>With love and prayers, from your brother just across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>Bertin K. Ganza, a concerned African and neighbor.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The New Times<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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