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Rwandan attacks in the DRC: "The United Nations has recognized what we have been saying for years"

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Congolese Armed Forces soldiers patrol near Kiwanja, North Kivu in the DRC, days after clashes with M23 rebels, April 3, 2022. © AFP / Guerchom Ndebo

By: Christophe Boisbouvier Follow

In eastern Congo-Kinshasa, the UN confirms that, for ten months, the Rwandan army has been launching attacks, sometimes directly, other times alongside the M23 rebels.

Reaction from a figure in Congolese civil society, political science professor Alphonse Maindo, who teaches at the University of Kisangani and at the University of Paris 1. He is also a human rights defender who was almost arrested two months ago by the military authorities in Kisangani.

Passing through Paris, he answers questions from RFI.

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