(27 Feb 2025)
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Bukavu – 27 February 2025
1. Various of rebel leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC) Corneille Nangaa arriving at a news conference at Bukavu’s South Kivu administrative office
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Corneille Nangaa, rebel leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC):
“I would like to give you here the first assessment that we have, which is that the attack caused eleven deaths, including of a woman. Verifications are in progress. The perpetrator of the attack himself is part of these deaths. There are 65 injured, including six critically.”
3. Reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Corneille Nangaa, rebel leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC):
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“We have always expressed the wish to see a political solution to the multifaceted crisis in the Congo. And we note, unfortunately, that he (President Felix Tshisekedi) is attached to war.”
5. Journalists leaving news conference
6. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels officials’ vehicles driving in front of the South Kivu administrative office
STORYLINE:
Rebel leaders in eastern Congo’s city of Bukavu said eleven people were killed and 65 wounded after two explosions tore through an M23 rally on Thursday morning.
Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, said that the perpetrator was among the dead.
He also accused Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi of failing to negotiate with the rebels, who took control of the eastern Congolese capital Goma in January and captured Bukavu just weeks ago.
“We have always expressed the wish to see a political solution to the multifaceted crisis in the Congo. And we note, unfortunately, that he (President Felix Tshisekedi) is attached to war,” he said.
M23 rebels have swept through the region seizing key cities and killing some 3,000 people.
The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away.
Rwanda has accused Congo of enlisting ethnic Hutu fighters responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
M23 says it’s fighting to protect Tutsis and Congolese of Rwandan origin from discrimination and wants to transform Congo from a failed state to a modern one.
Analysts have called those pretexts for Rwanda’s involvement.
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