First, there was Bunagana. Now there is Kiwanja and Rutshuru… Only a few months after taking up arms again, as it launched a new offensive on 20 October, the M23 rebels have gained further ground.
The rebels now occupy positions only a few dozen kilometres from Goma, which they are threatening to seize as they did at the end of 2012.
A turbulent end to Tshisekedi’s mandate
In her statement to the UN Security Council last June, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in the DRC, Bintou Keita, said the “robust and proactive” response of the peacekeepers had so far prevented the M23 from threatening the capital of North Kivu.
Was the head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) overly optimistic? In any case, Félix Tshisekedi did not imagine that the end of his mandate would be so eventful.
In his speech to the nation on 3 November, the
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