







“The economic objective of the minerals is part of the plan; the other objective is to help the M23 win the war, and then they’re going to do what they did in South Sudan and declare the Kivus an independent state. The President said that. Remember history, this whole area used to belong to Rwanda (…)” (Source: RDF officer deployed in Eastern DRC) – (Final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2025).
This here should be compelling and be a bigger storyline, as this is a neighbour and a sovereign state trying to use a proxy-war to change the territories of the neighbour, and create the plot of independence of two its provinces. That story should be told and it’s say a lot about the ambitions in Kigali and Rwanda. As it believes it has the capacity and the ability to make it happen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. That should be the word and a lesson, as it shows the sinister plot beneath it all and why they are doing it.
Just continue to read this:
“The idea was to help the M23 and, after recovering the territory, Rwanda was going to lobby the United Nations and argue that this part of the country should at least be given independence. It’s a line that goes back a long way, even to when James Kabarebe was still on the general staff. Kagame says this every time he speaks to the military, to indoctrinate them and say that this part of Rwanda has been taken over (…) The objective was to fight and defeat the FARDC; then the government would be forced to negotiate; and then Kagame could emerge as a negotiator and put conditions on the table (…) For the moment, they have changed their strategy; their objective is no longer Kinshasa, but North and South Kivu (…) In South Kivu, they also started to create conflicts between the Banyamulenge community and other communities; this was to create disorder so that the RDF could go and help (…). It’s the same thing for South Kivu: they don’t necessarily want to take the big towns, but rather all the villages next door to inculcate the ideology that this part belonged to the neighbor (…) Their mission was to come and fight here and take territory with natural resources, hold the place, push the DRC Government into negotiations until the eastern part was split up. This is Kagame’s doing.” (Source: RDF officer deployed in Eastern DRC) – (Final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2025).
If you ever believed in the narratives and stories from Kigali. This here is telling, as the sentiments has been spread and like wildfire. I myself remember reading that the M23 was the liberators and the ones freeing the Kivu’s from the looters, pillage and complete destruction of society. They were coming in “peace” and for helping the population. Alas, that was part of the plot and the plan from the on-set. To sell a story and make the M23 more noble and more just in their mission.
These sources to the UN Group of Experts are just telling a grander scheme, which shouldn’t be left unnoticed, as this tells what the Kigali is willing to do and how it wages war with a proxy. They aren’t just partaking in illegal trading of minerals and occupying territories of another sovereign. No, they intend to create a justification and take away the authority or the statehood of the provinces, which they are using a proxy war as a tool for its “independence”. The people are becoming pawns and used as a tool for the will of the President of Rwanda. That’s what it boils down to and he wanted it too happen.
Everyone should see this and understand this. That’s the game and how he wants to play it. It’s a way of Kagame to carve up the territories and hurt the DRC. He wants to take his share and have a friendly or even a marionette government in the Kivu’s. This should be a wake-up call and a reminder of how deep this conflict is. As this silent war is for something bigger and grander, which is profit and control or minerals, which is enlarging the pockets of the engineers of this war. Peace.









