US Sanctions Rwandan Minister for Perpetrating Atrocities in DRC

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Along with the Rwandan minister for regional integration, James Kabarebe, the U.S. also sanctioned a spokesperson of the M23 rebels, Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston. Two companies linked to Kanyuka and registered in Britain and France were also sanctioned.

The United States sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighbouring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured more territory, including two key cities.

Along with the Rwandan minister for regional integration, James Kabarebe, the U.S. also sanctioned a spokesperson of the M23 rebels, Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston. Two companies linked to Kanyuka and registered in Britain and France were also sanctioned.

The M23 rebels are the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups that have been vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth.

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The rebels’ unprecedented expansion followed years of fighting as the M23 group took control in a lightning, three-week offensive, of eastern Congo’s main city of Goma and seized the second-largest city, Bukavu.