In July 2013, during his Africa Tour, President Obama was asked in Tanzania by a Congolese journalist, Sahle Mwanamilongo, about US’ role in the international community and on the UN Security Council to pressure Congo’s neighbors, Rwanda and Uganda, to stop destabilizing the Congo.
In July 2013, after the publication of UN Group of Experts report on Congo, one of our friends in the House of Commons, the Hourable Pauline Latham, MP, OBE, raised the role of Kigali’s continued support to warlords and militia groups tyrranising Congo’s eastern region in the House of Commons during PMQs.
In October 2013, as the attempt to flush out Kigali’s M23 out of Congo by MONUSCO, FIB and FARDC, Vava Tampa debated Dr. Phil Clark on the role of Kigali in supporting militia groups in Congo.
In November 2013, the Shadow Secretary for International raised the issue of insecurity, the M23 takeover of Goma and Kigali’s support to the M23 in the House of Commons. See below for the view:
After the defeat of the M23, our founder, Vava Tampa, wrote an opinion piece for CNN International explaining that behind the headlines that the M23 has announced it will disarm, all is still far from well and went to outline 8 reasons related to insecurity, impunity and humanitarian crisis which he feels that the world should keep…
After the military defeat of the M23 by the FARDC supported by MONUSCO and FIB, Save the Congo launched a call for actions to be taken agains tthe FDLR, the Hutu militia group whose leadership took part in the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwandan in 1994. To help mobilise support in parliament, one of…