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𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝟲𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗘, 𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗖, 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗗𝗟𝗥 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝟴𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝟮𝟯. This is an animated sequence of how 60 000 soldiers were defeated by 8000 M23 rebels in the 2025 Goma offensive after they attacked M23 with the intention of proceeding to invade... show more

Rutendo Matinyarare

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Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

Full documentary from where illustrations come from

WE News English1 year ago

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M. Viviane1 year ago

Amazing illustration, well executed piece of artwork and great information. I would like to see this in a true story movie one day. Thank you Sir.

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

We Africans have to make the animations and movies otherwise no one else will.

Simon Pierre Gahamanyi1 year ago

And what is preventing that powerful army to advance to Uvira where there are no SADEC, Romanian mercenaries and 60,000 men? Take a look at where cities of Goma and Bukavu are, and ask them what hit them as they tried to advance to Uvira! Those who tried it, today many of them are blind, deaf and mute🤣🤣🤣

Emmanuel Munezero1 year ago

This is the most wonderful documentary ever seen on how 60k soldiers with heavy artillery failed before 8k of rebels with Ak46.

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

It’s a lesson in military strategy.

Patrick Niyongabo P.1 year ago

Thanks bro... You are a true Pan-African. Your hard work to educate our African brothers and sisters civically will never be forgotten

Mwene Munana1 year ago

La présence de MONUSCO et SAMIDRC entrave la vraie paix. Il est temps qu’elles partent pour que le Congo puisse réellement se relever. #MONUSCO_SAMIDRCDehors

Optmistic man 🇨🇩1 year ago

Thanks brother for your contributions. The truth behind this war shall reveal. You made it simple to understand🎉🫶.

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112,600 views • 6 months ago

HOW THE WEST ENABLES RWANDA TO LOOT CONGO Kayumba Nyamwasa, former Rwanda Army chief of staff and head of Rwandan intelligence from 1998 to 2002, dropped a bombshell on 2 February when he told @newzroomafrika’s Aldrin Sampear that Western countries like France, the United Kingdom and the United States do not comment on Rwanda’s military operations in neighbouring countries like Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mozambique because Rwandan companies process smuggled minerals that benefit said Western powers. The recent escalation in violence as the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia seized mineral-rich lands in eastern DRC on its way to entering Goma city has renewed the conversation about Rwanda’s and Uganda’s roles in the foreign-instigated three-decade-long conflict over resources. How the West has ignored Rwanda’s activities contrasts sharply with sanctions imposed against Rwanda and aid cuts in 2012 that forced M23 to go underground. As early as 1998, Burundian, Rwandan, Ugandan and/or Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) soldiers emptied DRC warehouses. The looting remains a prominent feature across successive proxy campaigns, casting doubt on claims that Rwanda or M23 intervenes in the DRC only in the interests of marginalised Tutsis in the DRC. Since M23’s resurgence in 2021, reportedly due to Rwanda fearing isolation following increased DRC-Uganda cooperation, the militia has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in eastern DRC. Reports indicate M23 is closing in around the city of Bukavu after entering Goma on 27 January. In Rubaya, which M23 captured in 2024, the group has generated around $300,000 monthly in taxes from tantalum mining. Video credit: @newzroomafrika (X)

HOW THE WEST ENABLES RWANDA TO LOOT CONGO Kayumba Nyamwasa, former Rwanda Army chief of staff and head of Rwandan intelligence from 1998 to 2002, dropped a bombshell on 2 February when he told @newzroomafrika’s Aldrin Sampear that Western countries like France, the United Kingdom and the United States do not comment on Rwanda’s military operations in neighbouring countries like Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mozambique because Rwandan companies process smuggled minerals that benefit said Western powers. The recent escalation in violence as the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 militia seized mineral-rich lands in eastern DRC on its way to entering Goma city has renewed the conversation about Rwanda’s and Uganda’s roles in the foreign-instigated three-decade-long conflict over resources. How the West has ignored Rwanda’s activities contrasts sharply with sanctions imposed against Rwanda and aid cuts in 2012 that forced M23 to go underground. As early as 1998, Burundian, Rwandan, Ugandan and/or Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) soldiers emptied DRC warehouses. The looting remains a prominent feature across successive proxy campaigns, casting doubt on claims that Rwanda or M23 intervenes in the DRC only in the interests of marginalised Tutsis in the DRC. Since M23’s resurgence in 2021, reportedly due to Rwanda fearing isolation following increased DRC-Uganda cooperation, the militia has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in eastern DRC. Reports indicate M23 is closing in around the city of Bukavu after entering Goma on 27 January. In Rubaya, which M23 captured in 2024, the group has generated around $300,000 monthly in taxes from tantalum mining. Video credit: @newzroomafrika (X)

African Stream

25,582 views • 1 year ago

Rwanda🇷🇼 now admits it works with #M23 as part of its "Defensive Measures' in #DRC🇨🇩. "Rwanda does engage in security coordination with AFC/M23", Rwanda's Ambassador to the U.S., Mathilde Mukantabana, tells the U.S. Ambassador Mukantabana says "Rwanda and AFC/M23 share a common interest in protecting Tutsi in DRC from the FDLR and other FARDC-backed extremist militias" and that her country's "interest extends beyond this: to prevent another genocidal cross-border insurgency, like in the late 1990s, that could threaten Rwanda’s very existence." She adds, "Our actions are narrowly focused on protecting the people of Rwanda by preventing cross-border genocidal threats. Rwanda’s defensive measures will adjust as the level of threat reduces,." On the implementation of the Washington Accords, she says, "Rwanda commits to a phased, simultaneous, and independently verified drawdown of its security coordination measures with AFC/M23, in direct proportion to FDLR disarmament milestones,".

Rwanda🇷🇼 now admits it works with #M23 as part of its "Defensive Measures' in #DRC🇨🇩. "Rwanda does engage in security coordination with AFC/M23", Rwanda's Ambassador to the U.S., Mathilde Mukantabana, tells the U.S. Ambassador Mukantabana says "Rwanda and AFC/M23 share a common interest in protecting Tutsi in DRC from the FDLR and other FARDC-backed extremist militias" and that her country's "interest extends beyond this: to prevent another genocidal cross-border insurgency, like in the late 1990s, that could threaten Rwanda’s very existence." She adds, "Our actions are narrowly focused on protecting the people of Rwanda by preventing cross-border genocidal threats. Rwanda’s defensive measures will adjust as the level of threat reduces,." On the implementation of the Washington Accords, she says, "Rwanda commits to a phased, simultaneous, and independently verified drawdown of its security coordination measures with AFC/M23, in direct proportion to FDLR disarmament milestones,".

Kennedy Wandera

40,383 views • 5 months ago