The Perspective

DR Congo President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi meets former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is the facilitator of the East African Community-led peace process and EAC Secretary General Peter Mathuki in Kinshasa on November 13. Courtesy The re-emergence of the M23 group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a decade of inaction has, once more, raised heated debate about Congo’s security fiasco in the region. Many analysts and political commentators seem to believe and advance Kinshasa’s main line of argument which is that Rwanda, mainly, and Uganda, to some extent, are directly involved in destabilizing the Congo’s eastern region in an attempt to steal the country’s mineral resources. Believing this narrative stems from a point of total ignorance of or limited knowledge about the dynamics of the affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo and their historical underpinnings. Ignorance of historical factors contributing to the current state of things in the Congo and the region

  A financing model for the sector should involve lenders shouldering the burden in case of farmer losses. Additionally, price incentivization, rather than relying solely on loan schemes, can motivate farmers to transition to farming models that yield higher output, benefiting from increased prices.                 Workers sort potatoes grown inside a green house in Musanze. Different experts are calling for increased adoption of modern agricultural models /Sam NGENDAHIMANA The May 2023 National Bank monetary policy report indicates an unusual increase in imports, with a 46.4% rise in consumer goods imports. This surge has accelerated the demand for the dollar and, coupled with a restrained US monetary policy, made the dollar even more expensive against the Rwandan Franc. Agricultural production has also experienced a decline, dropping from 6.4% in 2021 to 1.6% in 2022. In the first quarter of 2023, year-on-year inflation rates reached 35.4% and 75.6% for fruits and vegetables, respect

Today, the re-emergence of the M23 and DRC government's decision to collaborate with and ramp up its support for the FDLR in, supposedly, retaliation to Rwanda's aggression against the DRC is another event which will, eventually, end with Kinshasa losing more than it thought it would benefit from collaborating with the genocidal FDLR.                             Member of the FDLR When, in 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front stormed the Kagitumba border in an open come-home-fight against Forces Armees Rwandaises (FAR), then Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana called on his Zairian counterpart and friend, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Zabanga, to send troops to bolster the fight against the "invading Ugandans.” The Zairian troops sent to reinforce the FAR were, soon, to be recalled home for their unexpected suffering on the frontline from the Rwandan Patriotic Army's heavy fire. That was DRC's first fruitless collaboration with genocidal forces. At the defeat of