Johannesburg- Allegedly fighting on the minerals required for electric cars and mobile phones has become the first real foreign affairs test of the Trump administration in Africa.
The bodies lie by rotting in the roads, and hospitals have been overwhelmed by casualties in Goma, which are cities of 2 million people in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). M23 rebel, supported, United Nations and other sources say, by neighboring Rwanda, they are said to have occupied the city.
“M23 has controlled an important part of the city after a thorough fight with the Kangoli army,” said on Wednesday to coordinate the United Nations of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Warehouses related to office, and human organizations, while heavy gunmen and explosions have been heard in different parts of the city. ,
OCHA said “local sources believe that the number of civic casualties is important, though [an] The evaluation is yet to be done. Thirteen South African peacekeeping soldiers have been killed in the last one week.
13 United Nations peace soldiers, Allied Soldiers dead in Congo
March 23 Movement (M23) The rebels gather for mass protests, as they set fire to the buildings of Rwanda, French, Belgium and Kenyan Embassy and alleged during robbery of some shopping centers-during robbery Supported by M23 and rebels, the rebels in Kinshasa, the capital of the capital on January 28, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Chris Mali / Anadolu Getty Image)
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen Jim Six, R-Idaho., Recently, this part states that, “M3 should immediately stop its advance on Goma, and all parties should stop hostility, Unhealthy human access should be restored, and their commitments should be respected.
In the DRC capital, 10 foreign embassies, including the American mission, are attacked. Some including the French Embassy have been set on fire.
“M23 or 23 March Movement is a Tutsi-LED and Eastern-DRC-based rebel movement, born around 2012”, France Cronje, advisor to the US Yorktown Foundation for Freedom told Fox News Digital. He said that “the upcoming conflict has been going on for more than 3 decades, as a result of DRC’s extraordinary mineral funds.”
Chronje, which advises corporations and government departments on economic and political trajectory, continued. “According to a United Nations report, M23 has raised significant amounts from ‘taxation’ of mining mines in areas under its control – a common practice for armed groups working in DRC.”
President Donald Trump talked about the Midyar accident between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in Washington on January 30, 2025 in Brady Press Briefing Room at White House, DC Trump later to DRC’s violence in DRC Was asked about. And called it a “very serious problem”. (Through Roberto Schmidt/AFP Getty Image)
It was borne by the United Nations Security Council to report a commission 160-page from his “Group of Experts on Democratic Republic of the Congo”, and was presented to the council later last year.
The report stated that DRC operators of M23 and Rwanda Defense Force “Rubaya mining sites – one of the largest sources in the world, one of the largest sources of colon – Minerals used in EV batteries on 30 April 2024. ”
The M23 patrolling patrol, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, January 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
The United Nations report states that the M23 joined another rebellious group, AFC (Congo River Alliance), “and increased taxes on the sale and transportation of minerals and increased payment. The tax was $ 7 at one kilogram, while the tax on the tin (cacterite) was $ 4 per kg.
Kronje stated this week that there are other precious metals M23. “DRC is between 70-80% of the world’s cobalt production. The importance of cobalt is such that the US Energy Department has listed it as one of the seven minerals required for US economic competition, while the Defense Department Cobalt’s Cobalt Identified, “Critical ‘application.
President Donald Trump spoke about the fight on Thursday. “This is a very serious problem. I agree, but I don’t think it is appropriate to talk about it,” when asked during a briefing on the deadly airline accident in Washington, DC on Thursday afternoon.
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The boys said that the Cobalt was mined in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (ILO/Unicef)
However, the State Department is speaking on the issue, calling for a ceasefire. State Secretary Marco Rubio told Rawandan President Paul Kagame, “It is deeply upset with the United States. [the] Increasing the ongoing struggle in Eastern DRC, especially the collapse of Goma supported the M23 armed group for Rwanda, “Spokesperson Tami Bruce said,” The secretary said immediate ceasefire in the region and sovereign regional for all parties in the region To honor the integrity urged, “The United States overriding goal is a durable peace that addresses security concerns and lays the foundation for a prosperous regional economy.”
Kagame replied on X, posting that his conversation with Rubio was “productive”. He said that it “needs to ensure a ceasefire in Eastern DRC, and once and all address the root causes of struggle for all.”
Kagame said, “I am eager to work with the Trump administration to create prosperity and security, which deserve the people of our region.”
“M23 conflict is actually about minerals, but more and more transportation ambitions to control and administer most parts of the North Kivu of Congo”, Foundation for Defense of Democracy Long War Journal Editor Bill Rojio Told it. “Rwanda would like to control the entire trade not only, but also the entire trade in the region, and flexes her muscles as a new regional power station in Central and East Africa. Rwanda also claims that it also claims that it is about border security In this field, but it is actually more about its geopolitical ambitions. “
Roggio stated that it is “somewhat related to the disability of the Biden administration that is related to the inability to bring both Congo and Rwanda to the table and interact on real settlements, either through the Luanda procedure or the first Nairobi procedure.” He said, “Especially it fails to put sufficient pressure on Rwanda to pull back its support for M23, as the Obama administration completed in 2012 when M23 first captured Goma, but by America It was forced to withdraw after pressurizing Rwanda. “
For new administration, Africa has a chance to take positive steps towards a positive heritage. Michael Rubin told Fox News Digital, “For Trump and Rubio, he has an opportunity to do something different that can permanently fix the problem.”
Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and embedded for several weeks with M23 rebels in 2024.
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Members of the United Nations Standing Mission at Democratic Republic of the Congo (Monusco) ride on a pickup truck as they secure the evacuation of non-essential United Nations Employees, the fight between the armed forces of the M33 rebels and the Democratic Republic After that of 25 January 2025, Congo in Congo, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Reuters/Orlet Bashi TPX of the Day)
Rubin continued, “Everything we have is a very long old definition of insanity: to do the same thing again and again, to expect different results. There are two Congo wars, and if we have one The chest wound will be a third this time.
The defect should not rest on Rwanda, believes Rubin, but on DRC. “The story of the story that DRC is suffering and is aggressive of Rwanda and Uganda. This problem is Kinsa. To distract, the ethnic turned to abetment;
Rubin said that “The arguments about Rwanda, who looted the area, are not valid. Businessmen in Answer Kivu are blunt: Rwanda and Uganda are less than Kinsasa extracts at low fees in customs. Kigasa wanted them to turn to them, raw materials with high selling price and try to build plants. “
China and Russia are standing on the edge, waiting to choose from whom they dance to get DRC minerals. China has spoken against M23. It endangers their mining interests in the country. Additionally, soldiers of Africa Corps in Russia, the mercenaries of the private army of the former Wagner Group have been seen in Goma, which leads the DRC soldiers against M32.
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Kronje has prepared Fox News Digital Russia and China to support the winner potentially, “saying that the geostragatic significance of the region is such that all global powers either directly or so directly or so in Eastern DRC Indirectly interested in affecting the balance of power. “
