WEST ALLOWS KAGAME IMPUNITY IN CONGO

Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of Friends of the Congo (@congofriends), argued on Episode 18 of our ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast that Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, is a puppet of the West, serving their interests. Therefore, Carney said, Kagame has operated with impunity as his government arms, trains and harbours the M23 militia, whose campaign to seize mineral-rich territories in eastern DRC led about 500,000 Congolese to flee their homes in January alone. As the militia continues its Western-backed effort to expand territories it controls, it has reaped $800,000 monthly in production taxes in the Rubaya region.

In a 3 February interview with CNN International's Larry Madowo (@larrymadowo), Kagame claimed not to know if Rwandan troops are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This shocking denial comes amidst many reports indicating the opposite.

In this episode, we explore the three-decade-long, Western-backed proxy war over natural resources in the DRC that had k*lled about 6 million by 2010 and internally displaced about 7 million as of last year.

Watch the whole episode on our X and Rumble accounts, and on YouTube (search for @ahmedkaballo4170).

Sources;

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/3/dr-congo-near-goma-displaced-people-begin-long-journey-home 

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/06/africa/dr-congo-goma-violence-deaths-intl-hnk

https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2025-02-07/dr-congo-conflict/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/9016/2025/en 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyzl1mlkvo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW36WN7q7cc 

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-rebels-muddy-minerals-market-with-illegal-rwanda-exports-says-un-report-2025-01-08