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 focus on the Congo. On insecurity, he argued that “… even with the entire 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers deployed to three of Congo’s most volatile provinces (North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri) their task amounts to patrolling an area the size of Demark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta and Andora combined — with numerous hostile and disgruntled rebel groups.” Click here to read the article.
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