Ola Geeren
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Global News Podcast
Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
The M23 rebels portray themselves as liberators who have come to clean up corruption. But they have been advancing at the point of a gun and have forced almost half a million people to flee from camps around Goma. In a BBC interview, Corné Nanga said the rebels would take their fight all the way to the capital if, as he claimed, the government keeps attacking them.
Global News Podcast
Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
If the threat is in Kinshasa, he said, we will go there. He denied the M23 are backed by Rwanda, though this has been documented extensively by UN experts.
Global News Podcast
Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
So you don't receive any assistance from Rwanda?
Global News Podcast
Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
He said he had never read reports about human rights abuses by the M23, so couldn't comment, adding that he wasn't worried by the allegations. Human rights groups have accused the rebels of systematic shelling of civilian areas, mass rape and summary executions.
Global News Podcast
Trump halts military aid to Ukraine
The M23 leader denied there was a plan to join the east of the country to Rwanda and said he did not want to be the next president of the DRC, which he called a failed state. The lightning advanced by the rebels has stoked fears that the country could, once again, be at the centre of a regional war.