Turbulence in the Congo Off the Chart. Embassies and Airports Targets of Attacks. Story 1/30/2025.
Posted by HCN on Thursday, January 30, 2025
Just how much confusion there is as of several days ago to right as these words are being typed is not clear. What is clear is that not only the US Embassy was attacked but reports of at least a couple of others as well.
It appears that hotspots in the affected area of the Congo, or Congos, [Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of the Congo] include Kinshasa, where the US Embassy is addressed, and Goma Airport.
It appears that hotspots in the affected area of the Congo, or Congos, [Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of the Congo] include Kinshasa, where the US Embassy is addressed, and Goma Airport.
Strife has been in the region for decades, maybe longer in the efforts to come out of certain kinds of conditions usually associated with 'imperialism', in some ways well over 40 years ago, depending on what region, and the overflows of time.
Imperialism in general is not really a system that fits too well in today's technological time, sort of like sharing potato crops in a commune while it's freezing outside amongst millions of people with no telephones or video cameras; they had to share the crop to survive and sustain, maybe, maybe in theory was it a 'must', but in this general illusration, whether potatoes, or whatever the crop, things may have gotten carried away, in a number of different regions. A million women between age 20 to 60 lined up outside hunching over in winter jackets with scarves on picking at potato crops under gunpoint to work long hours, is not something you will likely see on TV in 2025.
Notwithstanding, perhaps due to years of being steeped in certain challenges, in the Congo, around the literal middle of the continent of Africa, now in 2025, decades after imperialism is now in history books, it may appear to locals in the Congo, the 'imperialism' is the big enemy, or a gang is stoking the flames with the slogan of ending imperialism.
At this stage, an attack on an embassy is what it is.
Key words in the melee right now is a group called M-23 or M23.
Some sources are saying M23 is 'backed by Rwanda'; what exactly does that mean?, people in Rwanda?
Some sources are saying M23 is 'Tutsi-led'.
Goma/the airport is near Rwanda, near or at the northern part of Lake Kivu.
The situation might be more complicated, in that at least 2 epicenters are affected concurrently, and are many miles from each other; are they one in the same event?, whether they are or are not, know that Kinshasa is toward west Africa, while Goma Airport is toward the middle of the Africa continent.
Is M23 spread out over 1,630 (or about 2630km) or more miles going from just east to west?
A subtitle from LeMonde on 1/28/2025 story: "At least 100 people have been killed and over 1,000 wounded, according to reports from hospitals. The Congolese and Rwandan Presidents are due to meet at an 'extraordinary' summit of the East African Community hosted by Kenya."
(https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/01/28/red-cross-warns-that-fighting-in-dr-congo-could-cause-viruses-to-escape-from-lab_6737510_4.html#)
French and Rwandad embassies are reported to have been attacked.
UN forces have had deaths, soldiers from: 3 from Malawi, 7 South African soldiers from the SAMIDRC.
SAMIDRC is in brief- Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional peacekeeping mission that was established in May 2023, deployed December 2023.
