LAST Sunday, a UN Security Council (UNSC) mission concluded a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to assess security and humanitarian conditions in the country, as well as the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission, Monusco.
The visit came amid an ongoing offensive by the M23 rebel group, which has seized parts of the eastern province of North Kivu, bordering Rwanda, following a resurgence of attacks since 2021.
Speaking in the province’s capital city of Goma, Nicolas de Rivière, France’s permanent representative to the UN and the co-leader of the UNSC mission along with Gabonese diplomat Michel-Xavier Biang, said, “The presence of the M23 is spreading and it is no longer to be demonstrated that Rwanda supports the M23 … It is also clearly established that there are incursions by the Rwandan
