{"id":98581,"date":"2025-03-31T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/afc-m23-rallies-congolese-diaspora-to-join-struggle"},"modified":"2025-04-30T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:54:42","slug":"afc-m23-rallies-congolese-diaspora-to-join-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/afc-m23-rallies-congolese-diaspora-to-join-struggle","title":{"rendered":"AFC\/M23 rallies Congolese diaspora to join struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Alliance fleuve Congo (AFC\/M23) rebellion\u2019s coordinator Corneille Nangaa has appealed to the entire DR Congo diaspora to join the cause for liberating the country.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the rebels allowed the South African-led Southern African Development Community (SADC) troops to leave eastern DR Congo with their weapons and equipment. The southern African forces who surrendered after the rebels captured Goma, the capital of DR Congo\u2019s North Kivu Province, in January, were part of the Congolese army coalition.<\/p>\n

Led by Nangaa, the former chairman of the Congolese national electoral commission, Alliance fleuve Congo is fighting for governance that supports basic human rights, secures all Congolese citizens, and addresses the root causes of conflict. The rebellion has vowed to uproot tribalism, nepotism, corruption, and the genocide ideology spread by the DR Congo-backed Rwandan genocidal militia, FDLR, among other vices, widespread in DR Congo. FDLR is a DR Congo-backed terrorist militia founded in mid-2000 by remnants of the masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda that poses an existential threat to the Congolese Tutsi community.<\/p>\n

Fully integrated into the Congolese army coalition, the genocidal militia joined forces with Kinshasa\u2019s allies with a plan to attack Rwanda. The militia\u2019s genocidal ideology is the biggest threat to Rwanda, and the entire region.<\/p>\n

In a video message posted on X on Sunday, March 30, Nangaa told the Congolese diaspora that \u201cour revolution will not be selective\u201d and it \u201cwill not be a group of friends, nor a group of opportunists.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cOn the contrary, we open our doors without any distinction, to the best of you according to your field of expertise. This is to allow our country to meet all the challenges of the new era \u2013 a respected state, a reconciled people, and a dignified nation. Our revolution continues its inexorable march for more justice, more freedom, and prosperity in the unity of all Congolese.<\/p>\n

\u201cMobilize yourself more to accompany the Congolese revolutionary army for the triumph of our values. Long live the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Long live the Alliance fleuve Congo. Long live the Congolese diaspora. May God bless you and protect you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Message du Coordonnateur de l\u2019Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC\/M23), Corneille Nangaa, a\u0300 la diaspora congolaise pic.twitter.com\/kLd0NUqXIR<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lawrence KANYUKA (@LawrenceKanyuka) March 30, 2025<\/p>\n

Since January, the Congolese armed forces have suffered major losses in the war against AFC\/M23 rebels. The Congolese army coalition comprised hundreds of European mercenaries, FDLR, Congolese ethnic militias called Wazalendo, Burundian armed forces, South African-led SADC forces, as well as UN peacekeepers.<\/p>\n

Following the heavy fighting triggered by constant violations of an earlier set ceasefire by the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) in coalition, on January 27, the rebels captured Goma, and quickly moved to secure and stabilise the situation and restore order there.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Congolese soldiers surrendered and later joined the rebels.<\/p>\n

As the security situation in South Kivu deteriorated amid reports of violence, looting, and abuses propagated by the Congolese army coalition, the rebels again reacted, first capturing the strategic airport of Kavumu, before moving south to capture the regional capital, Bukavu, on February 15.<\/p>\n

On March 19, they seized the town of Walikale which sits about 130 kilometers northwest Goma. It was the farthest west the rebels had reached during their rapid advance this year.<\/p>\n

Walikale has, for many year, been a stronghold of FDLR.<\/p>\n

Fighting between the Congolese army coalition and M23 rebels resumed in 2021.<\/p>\n

The rebel group was created on May 6, 2012, due to frequent failures of the Congolese government, including Kinshasa\u2019s refusal to implement a peace agreement signed on March 23, 2009. In January 2009, a former politico-military group formed about three years earlier, the Congre\u0300s national pour la de\u0301fense du people (CNDP), had stopped rebellion after Kinshasa promised to, among others, integrate its fighters into the national army.<\/p>\n

Top government officials including the then defense minister Charles Mwando Simba \u2013 who passed away, in Belgium, in December 2016 \u2013 attended a ceremony held at Rumangabo military camp, about 45 kilometres north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, to welcome the first group of rebel fighters into the national army. A few days later, CNDP officials announced the \u201cthe de facto transformation of CNDP into a political party\u201d recognized by the government \u2013after their fighter\u2019s integration into the national army.<\/p>\n

But about 11 months after denouncing rebellion and becoming a political party, everything was back to ground zero. At the time, a frustrated head of the ex- rebel group-turned political party, De\u0301sire\u0301 Kamanzi, resigned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fundamental reasons are, notably, the slowness in implementation of the agreements we have signed with the government since January,\u201d Kamanzi announced, explaining that \u201cwe requested that there be holding of a regular national monitoring committee, but this was in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, M23 is part of a larger and growing rebel coalition, Alliance fleuve Congo, created in December 2023.<\/p>\n

A vast Congolese army coalition backed by Western countries including Belgium and comprising the Rwandan genocidal militia and Burundian forces worsened the security situation in eastern DR Congo.<\/p>\n

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