LET'S UNITE TO FREE DRC - MALEMA

We need to come together and find a solution to the conflict in the DRC, Julius Malema has urged. The leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party says imperialist forces are responsible for fuelling conflict in the resource-rich central African giant.

One example is Western military aid for Rwanda, which backs the M23 rebels in DRC. However, the US has recently pulled the plug on such funding - precisely over Kigali’s backing the militia group, which uses child soldiers.

Malema wants Africans to unite in silencing the guns in order for the long-suffering Congolese to know peace. Malema was speaking on November 9th upon arriving in Kenya as a guest at the launch of the Pan-African Institute.

The DRC is Africa's most complex and long-standing humanitarian crisis. Years of fighting have led to nearly 7-million internally displaced persons, according to the UN. Recently, there has been a sharp spike in violence in the eastern part of the country. NGOs say nearly 3,000 civilians have been killed there since the beginning of 2023.

Malema echoes the last words of Patrice Lumumba in a letter to his wife: "We are not alone. Africa, Asia, and the free and liberated peoples in every corner of the globe will ever remain at the side of the millions of Congolese who will not abandon the struggle until the day when there will be no more colonisers and no more of their mercenaries in our country."

Let us know in the comments if you share Malema and Lumumba’s sentiments.