DRC announces the arrest of two Rwandans who allegedly planned an attack in Kinshasa

Dec. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced this Wednesday the arrest of two Rwandans who were allegedly preparing an attack in the capital, Kinshasa, on the occasion of the end-of-year festivities, amid tensions between the two countries.

The Congolese government has indicated that the two Rwandans would be “spies” and has added that they had the collaboration of two Congolese citizens, while adding that they had the cover of an NGO called the African Health Development Organization.

“These spies entered the DRC under the pretext of (working for) an NGO,” he said, before stressing that “they had infiltrated senior officials of the Armed Forces, high-profile political personalities, economic operators, and members of society civilian”, as reported by the Congolese news portal 7sur7.

In this sense, it has revealed that “the telephone number of the arrested Rwandan soldier reveals that he had access to different strategic sites in the capital, in complicity with certain officers of the Congolese Armed Forces”, without giving further details in this regard.

On the other hand, the DRC Executive has stressed that the suspects were preparing “a Machiavellian plan” and added that “investigations continue based on clues and evidence given by the detainees”, without Kigali having ruled on the arrests for now. .

Tensions between the DRC and Rwanda have risen in recent months due to the offensives by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group in the Congolese province of North Kivu, in the east of the country. Kinshasa accuses Kigali of backing the group.

United Nations experts affirmed in a recent report that the Rwandan authorities maintain a “direct intervention” in the DRC through their support for the group, while pointing to collusion between the Congolese army and various armed groups, including the Democratic Forces to the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), as denounced by Kigali.