Sending refugees to Kagame`s Rwanda is a cruel absurdity. Rwanda, under Kagame is like Chile under Pinochet : on the outside everything is clean but on the inside it is a rotten lie.
Source: APARECO TV
30 May 2022
Source: AFRO INFOS 243
Nord-Kivu : retour au calme après des affrontements entre les FARDC et les terroristes du M23
Le calme revient progressivement ce dimanche 29 mai dans les territoires de Rutshuru et de Nyiragongo au Nord-Kivu, après des affrontements entre les forces armées de la RDC et les terroristes du M23 dans le nyiragongo et à Rutshuru; des combats qui ont opposé la veille les rebelles du M23 et les FARDC au Sud-Ouest du groupement de Rugari.
Des sources civiles et administratives dans la zone indiquent que ces rebelles sont de moins en moins visibles sur la nationale numéro 2 dans la zone de Kibumba. C’est entre 18 heures et 19 heures de samedi 28 mai que des tirs ont été entendus dans la partie Sud du territoire de Rutshuru du côté du secteur Nyamulagira, dans le groupement de Rugari.
Des sources sécuritaires locales indiquent que des accrochages ont opposé fardc aux terroristes du M23 qui tentaient de traverser vers Masisi. Les habitants de Rwaza, et trois autres villages environnants, groupement de Rugari, qui ont fui ces affrontements, regagnent progressivement depuis ce dimanche matin, témoignent ces sources. Du côté de Kibumba, plusieurs sources locales confirment que les rebelles du M23 ont abandonné, après un combats violents, toutes les positions proches de la nationale numéro 2, et se seraient retirés depuis 2 heures du matin vers la Kasizi au pied du volcan Karisimbi, à la frontière avec le Rwanda, plus à l’Est du centre de Kibumba.
Cependant, pour ces sources, il fallut attendre l’opération de ratissage de la zone par l’armée congolaise pour rassurer la restauration de la sécurité à Kibumba et Buhumba. L’axe routier Goma-Rutshuru rouvert au trafic, annonce l’armée congolaise. Les Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo ont annoncé ce dimanche 29 mai 2022, la réouverture de la route Goma-Rutshuru, récemment coupée de tout traffic suite aux affrontements d’avec les rebelles M23. Le colonel Guillaume Ndjike, porte parole des opérations Sokola 2, indique que cette réouverture intervient après deux patrouilles de combat menées par l’armée congolaise dans cette zone.
Selon les explications du colonel Ndjike, la première patrouille était partie de Goma vers la place communement appelée « 3 antennes » à Kibumba, et la seconde, de Rutshuru jusqu’à Kibumba également.
« Il s’agit de la réouverture de l’axe Goma-Rutshuru qui a été coupé il ya 4 à 5 jours, l’ennemi est venu du Rwanda pour attaquer nos positions et ils ont coupé le trafic sur cet axe d’intérêt national. Aujourd’hui les Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo viennent de rouvrir cet axe. Cette route vient d’être rouverte par les FARDC à la grande satisfaction de notre population », a-t-il fait savoir. Cette nouvelle est objet de satisfaction pour plusieurs détenteurs des engins roulants bloqués à Rutshuru et à Goma. Des camions transportant des marchandises et des produits de première nécessité ont traversé à destination de Goma.
Le trafic a repris depuis le matin de ce dimanche 29 mai sur le tronçon routier Goma-Rutshuru après avoir été suspendu depuis le mardi dernier suite aux affrontements qui opposent les terroristes du M23 aux éléments des Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo dans le territoire de Rutshuru à Jomba et de Nyiragongo notamment dans le groupement Buhumba et Kibumba.
Cette information est confirmée par la société civile de Rutshuru qui affirme que les véhicules cantonnés à Kiwanja et à Rutshuru centre ont pris la route de Goma depuis les environs de 10 heure de ce dimanche.
À en croire son président, Claude Mbabaze contacté par la rédaction de Agoragrandslacs.net ce matin, cela fait suite au retrait des terroristes de Konombe et qui ont pris la voie du parc de Virunga mais explique ne pas savoir si ce retrait est stratégique ou une distraction du M23.
Il ajoute que l’attention doit rester démise par les éléments de l’armée loyaliste pour ne pas être surpris par ces terroristes qui ne cessent de rendre difficile le processus de paix entamé par le gouvernement de la République Démocratique du Congo avec les groupes armés dans les négociations de Nairobi.
30 Mai 2022
Source: Congo Live TV
30 Mai 2022
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Russia says the United States is provoking a food crisis in Ukraine by depriving the ex-Soviet country of its grain reserves.
Since the onset of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, waves of unprecedented sanctions from the United States and its European allies have been imposed on Moscow. They are also pouring advanced weapons in Ukraine, a move that Moscow has time and again warned would prolong the conflict.
The ongoing war, and its subsequent blockade on Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, has endangered the world food supply by preventing Ukraine from shipping its agricultural products.
Ukraine, one of the world’s biggest grain producers, is a major exporter of corn, barley, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil. However, it now cannot export its grain via its Black Sea ports due to the war, which has reduced its grain exports this month by more than half compared to a year ago.
On Saturday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that the US is triggering a food crisis in Ukraine by stripping the country from its grain reveres.
“US President Joe Biden’s statement on May 10 about the need to look for opportunities to export 20 mln tones of grain from Ukraine coincided with the signing of the Lend-Lease law for Ukraine. Turns out, Kiev will pay for weapons with wheat,” she said at a press conference.
“In fact, the US itself provokes food crisis in Ukraine, depriving it of grain reserves,” Zakharova said, commenting on the situation with food security amid statements by official representatives of foreign countries regarding the purported “blocking” of the Black Sea.
Russia and Ukraine together produce almost 30 percent of the global wheat supply.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which purchases almost 50 percent of its grain from Ukraine, feeds some 125 million people around the world.
Zakharova further stressed that the US and its European allies have already expressed intentions to export 20 million tons of grain from Ukraine within two and a half months, purportedly for their transportation to African and Middle Eastern countries in order to prevent a food crisis there.
“However, in reality, grain is transported to warehouses in Europe. Rail, road, and river routes are organized for its delivery to destinations in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria,” the Russian diplomat added.
Refuting claims that the ongoing war has caused a price surge in agricultural products around the world, she said prices for such products rose in 2020, which is by no means the result of Russia’s current operation in Ukraine.
“The pandemic has caused major disruptions to supply chains and significantly increased the price of food transportation services,” Zakharova argued.
She also cited experts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as repeatedly saying that the prices of such products reached record-breaking figures before February, denouncing the West’s anti-Russian sanctions as the “main catalyst” of the existing negative trends.
RDC : des combats ont éclaté à une vingtaine de km au nord de Goma, chef-lieu de la province troublée du Nord-Kivu. Des sources affirment que des rebelles du M23 ont attaqué une position militaire.
Source: TV5MONDE Info
excellent analysis from Nixon Katembo producer of Channel Africa
Source: SABC
The United Nations force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned attacks against it by M23 rebels and urged them to “immediately cease hostilities”. In a statement on Twitter, the UN acknowledged “the courage and determination” of its forces who responded to the attacks. For some analysis of this on-going conflict we are now joined by Channel Africa producer Nixon Katembo.
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Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group, as clashes between the army and the militia continued in the east of the country on Thursday.
Fighting with the rebel group erupted on several fronts this week in North Kivu, a conflict-torn province in the vast central African nation, which borders Rwanda.
“Suspicions are crystallising that the M23 has received support from Rwanda,” DR Congo’s government spokesman Patrick Muyaya stated on Wednesday evening, after a crisis meeting with the prime minister.
Primarily a Congolese Tutsi group, M23 is one of more than 120 armed groups that roam eastern DR Congo.
It briefly captured the provincial capital Goma in late 2012, before the army quelled the rebellion the following year.
But M23 resumed fighting this year, accusing the Congolese government of failing to respect a 2009 agreement under which its fighters were to be incorporated into the army.
DR Congo soldiers head towards the front lines after a clash with M23 rebels. By Aubin Mukoni (AFP)
Foreign Affairs Minister Christophe Lutundula also accused Rwanda of backing the M23 and said the militia had attacked Rumangabo army camp, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Goma.
“This is the height of brazenness, we cannot remain indifferent, we cannot say nothing,” he told delegates at an African Union meeting in Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday.
Clashes between the army and M23 continued near the Rumangabo camp on Thursday, according to several local officials who asked to remain anonymous.
‘Avoid genocide’
DR Congo and Rwanda have had a strained relationship since the mass arrival in the republic of Rwandan Hutus accused of slaughtering Tutsis during the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
Kinshasa has regularly accused Rwanda of carrying out incursions into its territory and of backing armed groups there.
Relations had begun to thaw after DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi took office in 2019, but the recent resurgence of M23 violence has reignited tensions.
Clashes between the army and militia forces have continued in eastern DR Congo. By Aubin Mukoni (AFP)
Tensions have also risen in Goma, an ethnic melting pot with a population of about one million, on fears of escalating violence.
General Francois-Xavier Aba van Ang, a high-ranking police officer in North Kivu, on Wednesday told city residents to prepare to defend themselves with machetes, according to a video posted on social media.
DR Congo’s government spokesman Patrick Muyaya criticised the remarks as “dangerous,” however.
“Appealing to the use of machetes, hate speech, stigmatisation is extremely dangerous and should be banned,” he tweeted on Thursday.
M23 on Thursday also stated that it was concerned by calls to violence.
“MONUSCO and the DRC government should stop this very dangerous slippage to avoid the genocide,” it said, using an acronym to refer to the UN peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo.
Investigation calls
The army launched an offensive against M23 last week, after the militia apparently attacked soldiers as well as UN peacekeepers.
Fighting with the rebel group erupted on several fronts this week in North Kivu. By Aubin Mukoni (AFP)
On Monday, Rwanda urged an investigation into an alleged rocket attack on its territory by Congolese armed forces.
Fighting between M23 and DR Congo’s army erupted again on Tuesday north of Goma, and by Wednesday had spread to other areas of North Kivu, including the Rumangabo camp.
DR Congo on Wednesday announced it had also requested an investigation through a regional body that monitors security incidents in Africa’s volatile Great Lakes region.
It did not mention Rwanda by name, but said in a statement that shells had been fired into its territory “from the east to the west”.
Source: https://www.modernghana.com/news/1160461/dr-congo-accuses-rwanda-of-backing-militia-violenc.html
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“West African countries are shifting alliances from France and the West in general to Russia in their war on terror. And they are getting results”
The people of Burkina Faso have held rallies calling for the termination of military cooperation with France. The masses are demanding that the new Burkina Faso government establishes military ties with Russia to combat terrorism.
This week we are focusing on growing anti-France sentiments in Burkina Faso where people believe there is a link between increased terrorist attacks and the presence of French troops in the country. The second segment of our program is on the potential of Africas ground water resources in improving the continents food security.
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/18/680511/France-faces-trouble-in-Burkina-Faso
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Des sources concordantes au sein du système des Nations Unies nous informent de la présence de plusieurs containers remplis d’armes appartenant à la Monusco, arrivés et actuellement bloqués au Port de Kalondo à Uvira, au Sud-Kivu.
Elles soulignent cependant que les Responsables Onusiens de la Monusco basés dans ce port refusent catégoriquement aux Agents Congolais des services douaniers et autres œuvrant à ce port de procéder au contrôle comme l’exige la règlementation en la matière.
Bien plus, une des sources, un Haut gradé dans le système de l’ONU qui, poussé par son esprit panafricaniste et ayant alerté certains Compatriotes Congolais qui ont mis l’information sur les réseaux sociaux ; affirme que ces armes sont destinées à ravitailler les occupants, notamment les Goumino et autres groupes des miliciens rwandais qui tiennent à occuper Minembwe et ses environs.
Dès lors, si par malheur le pouvoir de Kinshasa cédait à la pression faite aux Agents des douanes par la Monusco et venait à laisser passer ces containers, les conséquences seraient graves du fait que ces rebelles seront surarmés, et ni les forces des FARDC, ni des Compatriotes Résistants Mayi-Mayi ne pourraient faire face à l’offensive qu’ils projettent de mener dès réception de cette cargaison.
L’Alliance des Patriotes pour la Refondation du Congo, APARECO en sigle, prends cette information très au sérieux au regard du complot international que la RDC fait face. Car cette information ne fera qu’allonger la liste des scandales connus sur la plus couteuse des missions de l’ONU de l’histoire du Monde.
En effet, plusieurs fois, tant au Nord-Kivu qu’au Sud-Kivu et aussi en Ituri, les Casques bleus de la Monusco ont, soit été :
Au regard de la sensibilité de cette information qui constitue ni moins une menace sérieuse sur l’intégrité et la sécurité de notre pays, l’APARECO rejoint tous les Compatriotes pour :
Fait à Paris, le 10 mai 22
Alphonse Ebama Djoko
Président National de l’APARECO.
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24 March 2022
Germany is looking at keeping coal plants open longer in order to ensure energy security, the government said Thursday, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked fears over power deliveries.
Berlin said it will bring down gas usage in power generation by “possibly keeping coal-fired power plants as a security standby for longer.”
Decommissioning the coal plants “can be suspended until further notice,” they added, noting that “ideally” they would still stick to the goal of phasing out coal usage by 2030.
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