DR Congo offers $5m reward for arrest of AFC leader

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo provided a reward of $ 5 million (4 million pounds) to help arrest three leaders of a rebel group that seized the eastern country this year.

Cornell Nanga, Chairman of Dr. Kongo’s election committee, is now leading the Kungo River alliance, which includes the M23 rebel group. He took large gatherings in the cities under the control of the group.

The reward is also offered to the leaders of the M23 Sultani Makenga and Bertrand Bisimwa.

Last year, the three men were prosecuted in the absence of a military court and the death penalty for treason was charged.

A reward of 4 million dollars (3 pounds) was also offered to arrest their partners.

But the chances of their arrest seem slim.

In recent weeks, the army has not been a match with the rebels supported by the Rwandans who seized large parts of the mineral-rich Eastern Congo, including the two largest cities in the region-Goma and Bocavo.

So President Felix Chesikdi instead focused on trying to build international pressure for Rwanda to face sanctions to support the rebels.

Last year, a report issued by United Nations experts said that up to 4,000 Rwandan forces were working with M23 in Dr. Congo.

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

The Congolese government is also seeking to support the United States for reaching its minerals.

Dr. Congo accuses Rwanda of trying to control its minerals, which include gold and cholesters, used in consumer electronics such as mobile phones and computers.

In response to reports that Dr. Kongo was providing access to minerals in exchange for military aid in fighting the M23 rebels, presidential spokeswoman, Tina Salama He said at x last month This President TSHISECEDI was calling on the United States “the source of its companies for strategic raw materials from Rwanda, and the looted materials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and were smuggled to Rwanda” to buy it instead from the Congolese – “the legitimate owners”.

Rwanda denies looting of minerals from Dr. Congo.

He no longer denies the support of the M23, but he says that he is trying to prevent conflict in Dr. Congo from spill to his lands.

Rwanda also accuses the Congolese government of working with a different armed group in Dr. Congo, which is linked to those responsible for the genocide of Rwandan in 1994, in which about 800,000 people were slaughtered, most of whom were from ethnic tots.

The M23 and RWANDA government leads Tutsi.

The Congolese government denies working with the FDLR group, which Rwanda accused of “the genocide militia”.