Congo has asked the UN peacekeeping force to neutralise a new rebel movement, known as M23 rebels, and a force that helped carry out Rwandas 1994 genocide, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
The Congolese Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tunga Mulongo, hopes that stronger mandate to cease these movements from existing as an ideology could reduce conflict on the eastern borders, where the groups currently operate. If done properly he predicted that the situation could be resolved within a year.
Mulongo also urged the UN to impose sanctions on those that a UN report accused of helping create, arm and support the rebel movement in Congo, namely Rwanda.
The increased fighting in Congo’s mineral rich east, is some of the worst seen in years, resulting in over 280,000 people losing their homes.
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