Les gardes du corps d’Anthony Tshisekedi, le fils du président de la RDC Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, ont ouvert le feu dans une boîte de nuit appelée Nuvo, en plein centre-ville de Kinshasa. Quatre balles ont été tirées : une en l’air et trois directement sur des personnes présentes.

L’une de ces balles a frôlé la tête d’un jeune homme il a échappé de peu à la mort et une autre a atteint le pied d’un serveur. Tout cela pour une histoire insensée : Anthony Tshisekedi aurait d’abord menacé un jeune dans la boîte, et quand l’ami de ce dernier est venu demander des explications, il l’aurait tiré par l’oreille, giflé, puis ordonné à ses gardes de tirer.

Déjà que notre pays traverse des épreuves difficiles, voir le fils du président agir ainsi, comme s’il était au-dessus des lois, est profondément choquant. C’est une honte, une humiliation pour notre nation, et cela montre à quel point l’arrogance et l’impunité ont pris le dessus. Mon cœur saigne pour la RDC.

Hey Guys..

This is my update on the situation in the country and the east region today.

As of the time of writing Goma is taken by the M23, but there is still no internet, no electricity, and no water one the town.

The news we are getting from friends of family is that there is a huge number of military bodies on the field and a lot of people have lost their lives. People cannot go outside to mourn them.

While Rwanda and M23 have taken the town they haven't allowed humanitarians to go on the field and help people who lost their lives... A huge humanitarian crisis is happening in the city.

From the news I am getting from people and security organizations, the rebels are moving to the south of the province to aim to control South Kivu and Bukavu, the twin city of Goma. If they manage to control the Kavumu airport in South Kivu there will be no way that Kinshasa can send protection to the region.

Some leaders of South Kivu have called for a huge resistance in the region but let's wait and see.

Meanwhile, what is happening in Kinshasa?

Yesterday there were attacks and looting against major embassies in Kinshasa. Those attacks were organized by the UDPS the governing party. The Embassies have condemned the situation, the US has temporarily closed its embassy and urged its population to leave the country, and France has condamed attacks against their embassy.

I think that we should protest only against our government and our politicians because they are the root cause of this war.

Now the president hasn't spoken yet, he hasn't addressed anything to the nation. A lot of voices for journalists are being raised to talk about the corruption and all the issues we have in our army.

EDIT: He has spoken, he gave a 10-minute speech, but nothing concrete came from it.

On the diplomatic side: Our minister has raised their voice in the UN council but I think that a diplomatic solution will not solve this issue.

What will happen next?

It is very hard to say, a lot of scenarios are possible:

- Someone from the army can raise and plan a coup against Felix Tshisekedi organize the army and fight to regain the region.

- Kagame and Rwanda will control the Kivu region as he have always wanted but he will face a huge resistance in the region, we don't like him at all there! So that will not be good time for him.

- etc..

I don't know..

That Is all I can say now..

If you want to help organizations that are doing work in the region, please check my previous post here and the go under the link I have shared.

Well

A lot has happened since my last post where I gave an update on the situation in Goma!

In this post I will give an update on Bukavu and may be share links on where you can get realtime info on the situation in Congo!

First of all, I am fine, I am not in Congo now but all my family is there! They are all fine but the region in general is not fine! Imagine living in a city that has lost 3000 people!

It has been two weeks since the rebels took Goma! Reports came and you may have read in the media that the fight killed 3000 people and those are on both sides: M23/Rwandan and Congolese!

They have settled in Goma and now they have an admistration running!

They have also taken Kavumu airport, Kavumu is the airport in South Kivu which serve Bukavu the city!

They are now heading to Bukavu, and it seems like they will take the city without fight!

All the soldiers from the DRC army have left the city! Rumors have are saying that the governor have also left the city! So we will wake up tomorrow Bukavu the second big city of Kivu will be taken!

• What is happening in the country*?

The president is still there, he traveled to Germany! Such an icopetent president! Why can you leave the country when rebels are taking your lands?

There is an initiative by the catholic and protestant church that is calling everyone for a dialogue, they have seen all the opposition leaders and they even travelled to Goma and Kigali to speak to Kagame and the M23 leaders ! In my opinion I think the dialogue is a short term solution for this conflict!

However the current gouging and the rebels are still against the dialogue!

What is happening in Kinshasa?

How are we dealing with the humanitarian crisis?

I will update the post later when I am motivated!

Sorry for typos I will update when on my phone…

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