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It was just a typo.
Rather than beaches, they meant to say breaches...breaches of the mining code, breaches of fiducary responsibilities, breaches of the law, breaches of pretty much everything...corrupt fuckers.
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US 'not satisfied' with M23 withdrawal from Congo town, official says
By ReutersDec 23 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is not satisfied with the Rwanda-backed M23's withdrawal from a strategic town in eastern Congo, a senior U.S. official told Reuters, as residents reported persistent clashes nearby on Tuesday.
M23 seized the town of Uvira, near the border with Burundi, on December 10, days after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan leader Paul Kagame met President Donald Trump in Washington and reaffirmed a U.S.-brokered peace deal.
The capture marked the rebels' biggest advance in months, fueling fears of regional spillover from fighting that has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands since January.
After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Rwanda's actions in mineral-rich eastern Congo were violating the peace deal, M23 last week pledged to withdraw to give peace talks a chance.
While most M23 combatants have left Uvira itself, Washington is "not satisfied" that the group has fully withdrawn, the senior U.S. official said. "There has been some movement, but we don't feel that it really amounts to a complete liberation of the town. We do believe that the M23 continues to be positioned around the city," the official said.
Some M23 fighters remain in Uvira wearing police instead of military uniforms, two residents told Reuters on Tuesday. Sporadic gunfire was heard on Tuesday morning from hills overlooking the Kalundu neighbourhood, one resident said. Sources from M23 and the Congolese army blamed each other for the violence in recent days.
Rwanda denies backing M23 and has blamed Congolese and Burundian forces for the renewed fighting. A report by a United Nations group of experts in July assessed that Rwanda exercised command and control over the rebels.
M23 is not party to the Washington-mediated negotiations, but is negotiating separately with Kinshasa in Qatar.
WAR STRAINS PUBLIC FINANCES, IMF SAYS
The recent fighting has sent over 84,000 refugees into Burundi this month, overwhelming its capacity, the U.N. refugee agency said last week. About 500,000 people have been displaced in South Kivu province since early December, and the World Food Programme is scaling up aid for 210,000 vulnerable people.M23's lightning advance this year in North and South Kivu has cost Congo 0.4% of GDP, while exceptional security spending nears $3 billion, IMF mission chief Calixte Ahokpossi told Reuters.
"If (insecurity) continues in the medium term and they have to continue cutting spending, particularly on investment and social programmes, it will have an impact on growth and the future of the country," he said.
What a joke.
How many billions of dollars have fat Felix-the-corrupt and his family of mouth-breathing inbreds pilfered from the country over the past decade, and what health and infrastructure programs were cut or abandoned as a result. How many lives forever damaged, and how many families forced into grinding poverty as a result of their egregious greed and corruption?
I suspect that they alone have caused more damage to the country’s reputation, finances and infrastructure than a few pimply-faced M23 fighters.
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The joke is that Piece Prize Donny ( correct spelling ) expects to sort this out and that anyone believes he will.
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Yet another brainwashed liberal whose head Trump is living in rent-free.
Don't think you need to be liberal or a political theorist to understand that very few of the numerous wars 'solved' have actually had a real peace delivered, beyond what's written on the accord. Fighting is continuing in almost all of these purportedly resolved conflicts. A for effort though.
But in relation to AVZ, the US announcements that the war in eastern DRC is over seem even more than usually premature. It's an intractable conflict that has resisted decades of well-intentioned peace programs, and this current phase is looking pretty shaky.
Hopefully our prospects arent tied too closely into the requirement that an actual ground-level peace is reached in this region, as that is looking quite unlikely at this stage. Though at least it is still being worked through, without having collapsed entirely! The US historically (though not recently) also has a fairly good record in supporting legitimate peace deals that actually result in a cessation of conflict.
So we'll see. Though I am hopefully we will have a chance to sell out our stake before this particular house of cards comes crashing down again. As appears probable.
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