APA – Kigali (Rwanda) – President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has said he is left with no option but building a wall fence on the long border with neighbouring Rwanda, several correspondents in the region reported Tuesday
The relationship between Rwanda and the DR Congo has deteriorated as both countries blame each other for supporting armed groups that are a threat to their security.
He made the remarks during a Summit of the world’s three great forest basins in Brazzaville bringing together counterparts, Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo Republic and Brazilian, Lula Da Silva.
Tshisekedi consistently blames Rwanda for the M23 rebellion which Kigali considers it an internal matter of DRC. The battle hardened M23 fighters currently control vast territories in the Eastern region of the mineral rich nation.
Kinshasa has also repeatedly rejected demand by M23 movement for dialogue, effectively paralysing the Nairobi peace process which should have seen the rebels laying down their arms at a former military base.
“I am sorry as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo when faced with this kind of thing, I am not tempted to build bridges but rather walls to protect our population,” he told the summit on Saturday, adding, “We cannot call each other brothers and stab each other in the back.”
Launching an appeal for peace between different African nations, the President of the Republic explained that it will necessarily be necessary to banish “hypocrisy” among Africans and to have the courage among Africans to “look each other in the eyec, to say that it is abnormal to call each other brothers and stab each other in the back, at the same time.
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