Inner Circle | DRC
DRC presidential advisers split on how to handle Rwanda

Published on 11.11.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 6 minutes

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi at the United Nations General Assembly on 20 September 2022. © Peter Foley/EPA/MaxPPP

Felix Tshisekedi has repeatedly accused Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel movement that is advancing in eastern DRC. But many of those around him are more ambivalent about how to deal with Kigali.

The Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC), the regular army, is trying to retake the initiative in the east of the country after a lightning advance by M23 rebels in the Rutshuru area. With the help of Sukoï-25-type ground attack aircraft, the army has been bombing the enemy's positions in the wooded hills a few dozen kilometres

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Inner Circle | DRC
DRC presidential advisers split on how to handle Rwanda

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DRC
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DRC
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DRC
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