had become inconvenient for its supporters. And so they did outside. Laurent Nkunda was arrested last night while trying to flee Rwanda.
The announcement was made by the Joint Staff of the military operation in Congo and Rwanda game Wednesday surprise: bitter enemies for some time, the two countries were suddenly joined forces against the Tutsi general, leaving everyone stunned. The Rwanda had always denied its support to Nkunda, until, on 12 December, the UN published a report with direct evidence of support of the rebel Kigali.
Immediate reactions were international, so that the Netherlands and Sweden have suspended bilateral cooperation with Rwanda and other states threatened to do so. A defeat that the small country could not afford to "clean" image that President Kagame is trying to build and especially because half of its budget is based on international donations. Perhaps for this reason, in a few weeks, Kigali has removed support for Nkunda and agreed with the "enemy" Congolese to stop it. Everyone knew where Nkunda was living, but so far no one, including MONUC, had tried to flush him out. The rebel general would
now housed in a military base in Kigali. Over the next few days, and maybe you will understand what will happen to him now and will evolve as the relationship between the two countries after his dramatic arrest. Will finally be a breakthrough toward peace or just a new chapter of infinite war Kivu?
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