Many Congolese have been celebrating when they heard the news: the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has crushed a 20-month rebellion that threatened the government’s hold on the country’s mineral-rich eastern province, U.N. special envoy Martin Kobler says.
We can read in this article published on UPI: But lasting peace is likely to remain elusive because other rebel groups and criminal syndicates plundering the region’s deposits of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and uranium still plague the region, a key battleground in Africa’s deadliest and seemingly endless war.
Congolese officials say 10,000 refugees have fled into Uganda to flee a new rebel group named M18, about which little is known. U.N. officials estimate there are still thousands of armed men prowling the eastern DRC, which remains a magnet for bandits, warlords, unscrupulous corporations and greedy neighbors.
This is indeed a good news, deals are yet to be signed but international pressure on Rwandan President Paul Kagame to halt his support for M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to have paid off, eventually. It is the first glimmer of hope for peace in the region for years.
