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Bukavu dit NON au M23 de Kagame: La révolte qui change tout

Source: Africa Flashes

Bukavu dit NON au M23 de Kagame: La révolte qui change tout

30 March 2025

À Bukavu, la peur a changé de camp. Le 30 mars 2025, des milliers d’habitants sont descendus dans les rues pour dire non à l’occupation du M23, un mouvement rebelle soutenu par le Rwanda de Paul Kagame. Ce soulèvement populaire, né d’un ras-le-bol généralisé, marque un tournant dans la résistance civile contre la violence et l’insécurité imposées dans l’est de la RDC. Face aux fusils, ce sont des cris, des pancartes et des barricades qui ont répondu. Ce n’est pas un simple fait divers. Le soulèvement de Bukavu est le résultat de mois de terreur. Depuis février 2025, la ville vit sous le joug du M23, accusé de pillages, d’exécutions et de massacres, notamment d’enfants. L’économie locale s’est effondrée, les écoles ont fermé, et les habitants se sont retrouvés livrés à eux-mêmes. Mais la mort d’un jeune homme dans la nuit du 29 mars a été la goutte de trop. Kadusu s’est embrasé, et avec lui, toute la ville. Le M23, né en 2012, est soupçonné d’être la marionnette du Rwanda, qui justifie son implication en évoquant la menace des FDLR, des milices hutues. Le conflit, ancien et complexe, est souvent réduit à une guerre de ressources ou d’influence, mais il s’agit aussi d’un drame humain. Les habitants de Bukavu, eux, ne veulent plus être pris en otage de ce jeu géopolitique. Pour eux, le M23 n’a rien d’un libérateur – il est l’oppression incarnée. Le soulèvement du 30 mars n’était pas encadré par des ONG ou des partis politiques. Il était brut, spontané, et profondément ancré dans la douleur quotidienne des habitants. Les vidéos qui circulent montrent un peuple déterminé, femmes et enfants en tête, défiant des rebelles armés jusqu’aux dents. Ce jour-là, la peur a reculé, et l’idée même de l’invincibilité du M23 a été fissurée. Ce moment pourrait bien faire école ailleurs dans la région. Mais cette bravoure a un prix. Le M23 est soutenu, selon plusieurs rapports, par l’armée rwandaise, le RDF. Si Kigali décide de riposter avec force, les conséquences pourraient être dramatiques pour Bukavu. Le gouvernement congolais, dépassé, semble incapable de reprendre le contrôle. Kinshasa appelle à l’aide, mais les réponses internationales restent faibles. Alors les habitants résistent seuls, avec courage, mais aussi avec le sentiment d’être abandonnés. Ce qui se joue à Bukavu, c’est plus qu’un affrontement militaire. C’est un cri de dignité d’un peuple qui refuse de disparaître. C’est une bataille entre ceux qui veulent vivre libres, et ceux qui imposent la loi des armes. Et si cette révolte parvient à briser l’illusion d’une domination durable du M23, alors elle pourrait bien tout changer. Ce n’est pas juste l’histoire d’une ville – c’est peut-être celle d’une région qui se r

 

Bukavu : une vague de tueries nocturnes secoue la ville

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Bukavu : une vague de tueries nocturnes secoue la ville

Publié le dim, 30/03/2025

La ville de Bukavu a enregistré, ces derniers 48 heures, de nouveau cas de tueries nocturnes dans différents quartiers. Trois personnes ont été tuées, l’une par balles et les autres par vindicte populaire, dans les communes de Kadutu et Ibanda.

Ce dimanche 30 mars, la population du quartier Nyamugo, dans la commune de Kadutu, s’est réveillée sous le choc à la suite du meurtre, la nuit, d’un jeune garçon sur son chemin de retour à domicile.

La population a manifesté avec le corps dans la rue. Des tirs de sommation des forces de la rébellion, qui occupe la ville, ont dispersé les manifestants et le corps de la victime a été conduit à la morgue de l’hôpital général de référence de Bukavu, selon la cheffe de quartier.

Toujours dans la même nuit de samedi à dimanche, une autre personne présumée voleur a été lynchée sur l’avenue Ruzizi, au quartier Ndendere, dans la commune d’Ibanda. Son corps a été brûlé en plein air. Et la veille, dans une autre avenue de la ville, au quartier Nkafu, encore une autre personne attrapée en flagrant délit de vol a subi la vindicte populaire.

Entre le 6 et le 9 mars, plusieurs cas de cambriolages et au moins dix décès par fusillade ont été rapportés dans divers quartiers de Bukavu, selon plusieurs sources.

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https://www.radiookapi.net/2025/03/30/actualite/securite/bukavu-une-vague-de-tueries-nocturnes-secoue-la-ville

Ethiopia has huge untapped potential in terms of Tourism

Beautiful, beautiful, ancient Ethiopia!

Source: OBN Horn of Africa

Special Edition || Ethiopia has huge untapped potential in terms of Tourism ||

Mar 29, 2025

Special Edition || Ethiopia has huge untapped potential in terms of Tourism || Tourism is among the five economic pillars as Oromia and even as national. The OTC has tirelessly been working to achieve desired goal as a regional level and beyond

 

Congo may extend cobalt export suspension, president says

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Congo may extend cobalt export suspension, president says

Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Image by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Flickr.)

Democratic Republic of Congo may extend a suspension of cobalt exports beyond a planned four-month period as it considers ways to maintain higher prices for the electric-vehicle battery material, President Felix Tshisekedi said.

Cobalt prices have soared more than 50% from a two-decade-low since Congo implemented the export ban on Feb. 22 to rein in oversupply. The central African nation accounts for about three-quarters of world production.

After the four-month suspension is up, “a thorough assessment will be conducted to determine whether to extend it or adopt new strategies aimed at maintaining market balance and laying the foundations for sustainable local industrialization,” Tshisekedi told his cabinet Friday, according to minutes of the meeting shared with reporters Monday. “The ultimate goal remains complete control of the cobalt value chain.”

Benchmark prices for the metal are up to $16.10 a pound Monday after dropping below $10 Feb. 21, a level not breached for 21 years apart from a brief dip in late 2015, according to Fastmarkets data.

Cobalt production in Congo has soared in recent years, as China’s CMOC Group Ltd. ramped up output at two large mines in the country causing supply to race ahead of demand and prices to tumble. The government is considering a number of measures including export quotas that could allow it to better control the price in the future.

Congo’s Authority for the Regulation and Control of Strategic Mineral Substances’ Markets, known as ARECOMS, is the “only body authorized to comment publicly on the measures,” Tshisekedi said.

The country’s other major cobalt producers include Eurasian Resources Group and Glencore Plc.

(By Michael J. Kavanagh and William Clowes)

Source:

https://www.mining.com/web/congo-may-extend-cobalt-export-suspension-president-says/

‘Left’s dark money network…’: Tyler O’Neil exposes USAID’s ‘long history’ with George Soros

Source: The Economic Times

‘Left’s dark money network…’: Tyler O’Neil exposes USAID’s ‘long history’ with George Soros

27 Feb 2025

“The Daily Signal” investigative journalist Tyler O’Neil has shed more light on how USAID funds were used in Albania to persecute opposition leader Sali Berisha. His ‘bombshell’ statement came in the US Congress, during a meeting of the special committee on government efficiency. In the session titled “The Last America: How Foreign Aid Undermined US Interests Around the World”, the journalist also stated that the Open Society Foundations and USAID have collaborated in supporting the ‘East West Management Institute’, which received $31.2 million from USAID, funds that he said were used to persecute the democratic leader in Albania.

Sudan lodges case against UAE at ICJ over ‘complicity in genocide’

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Sudan lodges case against UAE at ICJ over ‘complicity in genocide’

This photo taken on January 19, 2025 shows a general view of damaged shops and houses in Sudan’s al-Jazira state capital Wad Madani. (Photo by AFP)

Sudan has lodged a complaint against the United Arab Emirates at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Persian Gulf country’s “complicity in genocide.”

The Hague-based ICJ confirmed on Thursday that Khartoum had filed an application to open proceedings against the UAE.

The application relates to “acts adopted, condoned, taken, and being taken by the Government of the United Arab Emirates in connection with the genocide against the Masalit group in the Republic of the Sudan since at least 2023,” the ICJ said in a statement.

The filing said the UAE, with its backing of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied Arab militias since 2013, had empowered them to commit “genocide, murder, theft of property, rape, forcible displacement, trespassing, vandalism of public properties, and violation of human rights.”

In the complaint, Sudan urged the ICJ to impose emergency measures, calling on the UAE to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II” of the Genocide Convention, including the intense ethnic-based killing of members of the Masalit group.

At least 70 Sudanese massacred as RSF insurgents attack hospital in besieged El Fasher

At least 70 Sudanese massacred as RSF insurgents attack hospital in besieged El Fasher

Sudanese insurgents have attacked the only functioning hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher, massacring about 70 civilians, and injuring another 19.

It called on the perpetrators of the massacres to immediately stop “killing members of the group” and “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.”

Khartoum said the perpetrators had been “deliberately inflicting conditions to bring about the physical destruction of the group, and the imposition of measures that are intended to prevent births within the group.”

Both Sudan and the UAE are parties to the Genocide Convention. However, the UAE denies providing support to the RSF.

An Emirati official was quoted as saying that the UAE will be seeking the immediate dismissal of the case, stating that the allegations “lack any legal or factual basis.”

In Sudan, women face ‘epidemic of sexual violence’: UN

In Sudan, women face ‘epidemic of sexual violence’: UN

The UN says women in Sudan face an “epidemic of sexual violence.”

The Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights said there are “reasonable grounds to believe the RSF and allied militias are responsible for genocide against non-Arab groups other than the Masalit, including the Fur and Zaghawa.”

The RSF began an insurgency challenging the Sudanese army under the command of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in April 2023.

Since then, their indiscriminate attacks against civilians and based on ethnicity have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people and forced millions to flee their homes.

Source: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/06/744039/Sudan-Launches-Case-Against-UAE-ICJ-Over-Complicity-Genocide

‘USAID funded Trump impeachment…’: Shellenberger exposes Deep State at US House hearing

Trump impeachment and RussiaGate Hoax funded by USAID. When will they prove the Biden administration was a direct coup? So who and what did USAID work for?

Source: The Economic Times

‘USAID funded Trump impeachment…’: Shellenberger exposes Deep State at US House hearing

14 Feb 2025

Michael Shellenberger testified on reporting by his news organization Public that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, whose goals include shaping elections worldwide, “effectively” served as an arm of USAID, whose official admitted USAID approves OCCRP’s “key personnel” and “annual work plan” in a German documentary last year. Committee member Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said he would reintroduce his bill to get rid of “Track F” grants by the National Science Foundation that fund censorship, which Shellenberger described as “middleware” that allows “centralized authorities to decide what the truth was and filter it” and started as “recycle[d]” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency projects.