The Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of "declaring war"

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rwanda has sent troops across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo to support the rebel M23 groups, triggering the Congolese foreign minister to call for international sanctions against Kigali. We speak to the UN force supporting the DRC national forces and a local journalist in Goma to find out the latest.

Also on the programme: President Trump has said Palestinians should move from Gaza to neighbouring Arab countries, we speak to Richard Haass, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations; and the latest on the Presidential election in Belarus which EU leaders have labelled a farce.

(Image: Internally displaced people who fled from various camps following fighting between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gather outside Saint Esprit parish in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on January 26, 2025. Credit: Arlette Bashizi for Reuters)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Newsour from the BBC World Service, live from London with Owen Bennett Jones,
0:08.4	and coming up Sir Paul McCartney on how AI will affect the ability of musicians to make a living.
0:14.7	AI is a great thing, but it shouldn't rip creative people off.
0:19.1	There's no sense in that.
0:20.9	Why would a government want to do that?
0:23.2	I don't get it.
0:24.5	So, you know, if you're putting through a bill,
0:26.8	make sure you protect the creative thinkers,
0:31.0	the creative artists,
0:32.7	or you're not going to have them.
0:34.9	More from him later.
0:36.1	But first, Rwandan-backed rebels in the M23
0:39.2	militia are advancing on the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo near
0:45.1	the Rwandan border. Now, yesterday we heard there was fighting near the airport. Today, the airport is
0:50.9	closed. People were going out of Goma, some still are, but others are now coming in from surrounding areas.
0:58.0	The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting on this.
1:01.6	UN Chief Antonio Guterres said Rwandan forces should withdraw from the DRC and stop supporting M23.
1:10.1	Well, speaking just a few hours ago, the DRC's foreign minister, Therese Kayak Wamba Wagner,
1:16.0	was scathing about the lack of interest from the UN in the conflict.
1:21.3	For the past three years, the Security Council has failed the Congolese people.
1:25.5	It has not acted, it has not held the people accountable
1:28.9	who are directly linked to the chain of commands, linking the RDF and the M23,
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