‘Peace Deal’ On Paper, Blood On Soil: How US Betrayed Congo For Mineral Wealth | World News

GOMA (Congo): The new fighters, who grasp their rifles like life lines, bind the worn boots on the steam streets of Goma. Washington is preparing for another war called peace agreement to the world. On June 27, in Washington Grand Halls, American officials watched Rwanda’s external ministers and signed a document that President Donald Trump greeting as a “great treaty .. He called his hand as evidence that he could solve even the most bloody wars of Africa.

However, gunfire did not stop in Eastern Congo. The militia wars, which began in the ashes of the 1994 genocide, are still burning and more than 6 million lives were lost. For many people in Goma, the agreement is nothing but a cover for an American photo op or deeper ambitions.

Rebelling voices against Kinshasa

Corneille Nangaa, once a key election official and now a rebel leader, told journalists in the rebellious Goma that his coalition, alliance Fleuve Kongo (AFC) was a target: Kinshasa’ya march and overthrow President Félix Tshisekedi.

He described Tshisekedi as illegitimate and corrupt. Nangaa said that salvation is the only option and that the state should be rebuilt from the ashes.

The M23 group, which formed the muscle of this coalition, had already swept Goma and Bukavu in a lightning attack this year. The Congo government has counted more than 7,000 deaths since January.

The M23 claims to defend the Tutsi minority of the region, but Kinshasa accuses him of raising the massacre and Rwanda. Neither M23 nor Nangaa’s coalition were not included in Washington’s talks.

Nevertheless, Trump praised the “settled” of Congo Pala wars in London. He said that about 10 million people died, but America ended it.

Experts laughed at their claim.

UN paint a darker picture

As Washington celebrated, the UN inspectors also revealed fear. Between January and July, reports documented the executions, disappearances, torture and rape of summary executions in the North and South Kivu.

In a massacre in Rutshuru, Rwanda killed troops with hundreds of civilians with hundreds of civilians. It has been one of the most deadly attacks since the revival of M23.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker said that the victims were beaten, drowned and starved to Turkish delegates. He added that Rwanda’s participation could not be ignored.

The Human Rights Monitoring Organization revealed these findings by explaining the massacres near the Virunga National Park.

M23 put aside the charges as a lie, insisted that Nangaa, Kinshasa and his allies invented to raise donor money. Although most of the international community pointed to Kigali’s fingerprints all over violence, he rejected Rwanda’s role.

Minerals in lives

Trump explained what Washington really wanted when he told journalists that the peace agreement would allow America to provide “most of the mining rights from the Congo”.

Congo is the world’s largest source of cobalt and color, which are metals that strengthen US smartphones and electric cars. Rebellion and militias fight on these sources while civilians are hunger.

Nangaa mocked Trump’s words. Minerals, Tshisekedi or Washington, not the people of Congo, he said. The authority warned that any agreement signed in the Oval Office is meaningless without considering the real problems of Congo’s corruption, ethnic division and bad governance.

He lives in ruins

Eight months after M23 captured Goma, he buys the markets again with chicken, spices and chat. But every conversation carries fear. Traders whisper that things are “good ,, but they do not dare to talk about the life under the rebellious weapons.

The United Nations counted 7.8 million displaced people in Eastern Congo, the highest record. Hunger follows the land. The World Food Program warned that 28 million people are currently in need of emergency assistance and that 4.75 million children are under serious risk of nutrition.

However, in July, the United States hit the brakes in the USAID, Millions of Feding Agency. When 6 billion dollars withdrawn, rape kits disappeared from clinics for victims of sexual violence, and humanitarian groups remained silent due to lack of cash. The Congo wing while America is moving away.

A war that never ends

Masisi, north of Goma, fights with daily anger. More than a million fled. Families are walking around, some were forced to “return to Rwanda along the border, but many were born in Congo and never saw Rwanda. The displaced camps were destroyed and people were sent back to the remains of their homes.

Doctors without limits were subjected to more than 7,400 sexual violence between January and April. Women lined up for medicine, their stories hid quietly.

The truth in the ground

When Washington congratulated himself, Congo knows the truth. The rebels fight not for US minerals, but for survival, manioc and rice. The villagers stick to land residues. Mothers’ children.

An aid worker summarized: The fight takes place every day. The war for the people of Congo is not in Washington. Here, in Goma, Bukavu, Rutshuru.

And the so -called American peace agreement? Another piece of paper sinking with blood only.