Kinshasa, Oct 6, 2025 (AFP) - In DR Congo, M23 militia takes root as diplomacy stalls

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2025-10-06

While a peace deal is proving slow to take effect on the ground, the M23 armed group is consolidating its political and economic hold on the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It has set about recruiting officials and imposing taxes, as well as training judges, soldiers and police in a bid to create parallel administrative structures to those of the Kinshasa government. Eastern DRC, rich in mineral resources and bordering Rwanda, has bee......

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