Congo-Kinshasa: Cardinal Ambongo - 'The Situation in and Around Goma Is Deteriorating Day By Day'

Kinshasa —"The situation in and around Goma is deteriorating day by day," says Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa, to Fides. He refers to the capital of North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo , where the M23 guerrillas have taken up arms again since 2021 and have captured several towns.

"This is because the government has distributed additional weapons to various armed groups, such as the Wazalendo and also to some members of the Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda , , in the expectation that these groups would support the army against the advance of the M23. "The arrest and death sentence of the leader of 'Wazalendo' has shown that this group is not homogeneous; some of its followers have even joined the ranks of the M23. It is difficult to control these armed groups, which refer to many leaders", says Cardinal Ambongo, who attributed great responsibility to the Congolese government in dealing with the crisis in the east of the country.

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