Against a backdrop of decades of violent insecurity and mass displacement in the resource-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a deadly Ebola outbreak is also spreading, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that few other situations illustrate so painfully the gap between international commitments and people's lived reality. She stated that the DRC continues to face a war of aggression led by Rwanda through its proxy the AFC/M23, and that other armed groups, particularly the Allied Defense Forces (ADF) and CODECO, are exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. Suminwa pointed to several developments that have opened up prospects for an end to violence, such as the peace agreement, and insisted that the country cannot build a decarbonized economy through blood-stained minerals.
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