The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has announced a\u00a0$5 million reward\u00a0for the capture of three M23 rebel leaders, including former electoral chief\u00a0Corneille Nangaa, military commander\u00a0Sultani Makenga, and political leader\u00a0Bertrand Bisimwa. The trio was sentenced to death in absentia last year for treason.<\/p>\n
Despite the bounty, arresting them remains unlikely as\u00a0Rwandan-backed M23 forces\u00a0continue to dominate eastern DR Congo, seizing major cities like\u00a0Goma and Bukavu. Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.<\/p>\n
President\u00a0F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi\u00a0is calling for\u00a0international sanctions against Rwanda, which a\u00a0UN report\u00a0says has deployed troops to support M23. DR Congo has also urged the U.S. to\u00a0source minerals directly from its territory\u00a0instead of Rwanda, which it accuses of smuggling\u00a0gold and coltan, essential for electronics.<\/p>\n
Rwanda denies looting DR Congo\u2019s resources but acknowledges supporting M23, citing security concerns over alleged Congolese ties to\u00a0FDLR, a militia linked to the\u00a01994 Rwandan genocide\u2014a claim DR Congo rejects.<\/p>\n
About 4,000 Rwandan troops are fighting alongside M23 rebels in eastern Congo, where the rebels now control the capitals of the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, according to a report by U.N. experts.<\/p>\n
M23 is the most powerful of the many armed groups vying for a foothold in Congo\u2019s east, a region possessing trillions of dollars in largely untapped mineral resources crucial for global technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has announced a\u00a0$5 million reward\u00a0for the capture of three M23 rebel leaders, including former electoral chief\u00a0Corneille Nangaa, military commander\u00a0Sultani Makenga, and political leader\u00a0Bertrand Bisimwa. The trio was sentenced to death in absentia last year for treason. Despite the bounty, arresting them remains unlikely as\u00a0Rwandan-backed M23 forces\u00a0continue to dominate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2362,1129],"tags":[72,1621,140],"class_list":["post-15564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-featured","category-security","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-m23-rebels","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}