At the last UN Security Council session, Rwanda’s UN ambassador, Martin Ngoga put both DRC and the UN to task. He asked one straight question: why had Kinshasa failed to observe what was in the Concept of Operations (CONOPs), specifically the dismantling of FDLR, as it had committed to doing during the Washington Peace Agreement?’
Ambassador Ngoga and Zenon Mukongo Ngay, his DRC counterpart, were attending the UNSC session to provide explanations to the previous developments with regard to Washington process and share lights to the reported killings that allegedly took place in different areas in the Eastern DRC.
For anybody that has been following developments in Eastern DRC, such was not supposed to be a surprise demand.
The CONOPs were clear. They were meant to end hostilities, respect territorial borders, disarm and disengage non-state armed groups like the FDLR, allow refugees and displaced people to return, and stop minerals from funding militias. In short, it was a roadmap to peace and to regional economic integration.
Ambassador Mukongo did not even care to provide explanation on thematter, in fact he left the whole plenary puzzled, when he stated that he did not have anything else to say after replicating the whole rhetoric that ‘Rwanda arms M23 soldiers to destabilize his country.’
For Tshisekedi and his acolytes, paperwork is easy and commitments are disposable. To them peace is a dangerous game, because if peace ever takes hold in eastern Congo, their record of incompetence, corruption, massacres, and industrial-scale looting will no longer hide behind war.
That is why the FDLR continues to enjoy safe haven. That is why the so-called joint verification meetings turn into empty rituals. And that is why every promise signed abroad dies as soon as the jet touches down in Ndjili.
Tshisekedi’s politics is not about agreements. It is about manipulation. The measure of success is not whether the FDLR is dismantled, whether Congolese refugees return home, or whether cross-border trade lifts regional economies. The measure is how well he can twist the story to his advantage.
Lately, his obsession has reached a new low. Instead of implementing what he signed, he is busy hiring mouthpieces and buying headlines. Discredited agencies are dusted off to publish reports. International media is fed a ready-made narrative: blame Rwanda, distract from Kinshasa’s failures, and recycle lies as “analysis.”
In the end, it does not matter what was signed in Washington, agreed in Doha, or promised in New York. It only matters how much Tshisekedi is willing to pay to make his false version stick. Agreements are shredded, while payments to spin doctors are wired on time.
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