Dr. Congo offers a $ 5 million award for AFC leader arrest

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has offered a $ 5 million (£ 4 million) award for helping the arrest of three rebel leaders, which has captured much of the eastern part of the country this year.

Corneille Nangaa, a former head of the Election Commission of the Congo, is now leading the Alliance of the Congo River, which includes the M23 rebel group. He turned to major rallies in the cities under the control of the group.

Bounty is also available for the leaders of M23 Sultani Makenga and Bertrand Bisimwa.

Last year, the three men were persecuted in absentia by a military court and awarded death sentences.

The arrest of their accomplices also offered a $ 4 million award (£ 3).

But the chances of them arrested look thin.

In recent weeks, the army has not coincided with the Rwanda-supported rebels, who have caught large parts of the mineral-rich East Congo, including the two largest cities in the region-Goma and Bukav.

Thus, President Félix Tshisekedi instead focused on trying to build international pressure for Rwanda to face sanctions to support rebels.

Last year, a report from UN experts said that up to 4,000 Rwanda troops were working with M23 in Congo.

Thousands of people were killed during the fighting and hundreds of thousands were left without shelter after escaping from their homes.

The Congoan government is also seeking US support in exchange for access to its minerals.

D -C Congo accuses Rwanda of trying to take control of its minerals, which include gold and color used in consumer electronics such as mobile phones and computers.

In response to the reports that D -C Congo offers access to minerals in exchange for military assistance to combat rebel M23, Presidential spokeswoman Tina Salama said on X last month This President Tshisekedi invites USA “whose companies sources of strategic raw materials from Rwanda, materials that have been looted by the DRC and smuggled in Rwanda” to buy them from the Congojans – the “legal owners”.

Rwanda denies the robbery of minerals from the Congo.

He no longer denies supporting the M23, but says he is trying to prevent the conflict in Congo from pouring into his own territory.

Rwanda also accuses the Congo government of working with a different armed group in Congo, which is related to the persons responsible for the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which about 800,000 people, mostly ethnic tuts, have been killed.

Both the M23 and Rwanda government is run by Tutsis.

The Congoan government denies working with the FDLR group accused by Rwanda of being a “genocidal militia”.