CNRC PRESS RELEASE
UNCONVINCING U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST RWANDA’S TERRORIST REGIME: Token Measures, Impunity, and Electoral Calculations That Fool No One…
The CNRC notes that the United States has confirmed Rwanda’s terrorist activities against the DRC (through its support for the M23 militia), yet continues to go easy on Kigali by imposing cosmetic “sanctions” that fall far short of the gravity of the tragedy that millions of Congolese have suffered for three decades.
Paris, October 30, 2026— The Congolese National Resistance Council (Conseil National de la Résistance Congolaise, CNRC) is not convinced of the effectiveness of the recent American “token measures” against Kigali, which are far too weak given the scale of the Congolese tragedy.
Indeed, after clearly accusing Rwanda and rightly acknowledging that Rwanda:
1. Is indeed providing military support to the (terrorist) M23 militia (which has opportunistically transformed itself into the FRN), particularly by supplying weapons and providing training.
2. Is undermining the commitments made under the Washington Accords for “Peace and Prosperity,” signed on December 4, 2025.
3. Is contributing to instability in eastern DRC, particularly in areas rich in gold and coltan.
Washington is still merely asking Kigali’s terrorist regime to “simply cease its support for the M23,” which, moreover, no longer officially exists, and to withdraw its forces from eastern DR Congo.
Yet, for nearly three decades, UN reports, NGO investigations, and victims’ testimonies have documented allegations of Rwanda’s involvement in the violence ravaging eastern DR Congo.
The Mapping Report remains damning evidence of this tragedy. However, for years, Congolese resistance fighters have continued to denounce Washington’s duplicity in the Congolese crisis.
In the CNRC’s view, since Donald Trump has made peace in DR Congo virtually one of his campaign talking points, Washington appears primarily interested in containing Kagame’s belligerent initiatives until the midterm elections. Kagame has become a strategic partner who is sometimes an inconvenient one, yet the United States continues to go easy on him.
This is why American policy continues to be characterized by blatant double standards.
Without passing judgment on the appropriateness of these actions, one can observe that when Washington truly wants to act, it has the means to do so.
Iraq, Libya, and Venezuela, among others, provide ample evidence of this. The entire world has not forgotten the fate reserved for Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, or Nicolás Maduro.
When it comes to Rwanda, however, doubts remain, despite Paul Kagame’s criminal activities and a humanitarian record that speaks volumes.
In the African Great Lakes region, impunity has become the rule…
How can one explain the fact that, despite millions of confirmed deaths and more than 500,000 women having fallen victim to sexual violence, according to some estimates, no genuine accountability process has been established to identify and prosecute all those allegedly responsible?
In the Great Lakes region, impunity appears to have become the rule. Justice has never seemed to be a priority for Washington; otherwise, the responsibility of Paul Kagame’s Rwandan regime would be addressed with an entirely different level of determination. Kigali’s regime should have been designated a terrorist regime and treated as such a long time ago.
Instead, the United States has granted Paul Kagame and his accomplices absolution and impunity, while legalizing and formalizing their plunder through the “Washington Agreement Without Peace.”
Despite much fanfare, this agreement has still not brought about peace. On the contrary, it has absolved Rwandan criminals and, in the process, rewarded them for their crimes and the plundering of Congolese resources, among other things.
The CNRC therefore calls on the Congolese people to remain vigilant, mobilized, and determined to continue defending our country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Indeed, there is every reason to believe that once the U.S. midterm elections are over, the “honeymoon” between Kigali and Washington—or their tacit partnership, depending on how one sees it—in the exploitation of DR Congo’s resources will continue at the expense of the Congolese people, with the complicity of Félix Tshisekedi and Kinshasa’s collaborationist government.
Today, Kigali’s terrorist regime, now hiding behind the impostor Joseph Kabila and his Rwandan militia, the FRN, is on the verge of implementing the long-denied project to balkanize the DRC.
This is being carried out through the occupation of our Congolese lands and the infiltration of our institutions, with the complicity of Félix Tshisekedi, who continues to protect Kagame’s numerous agents within our institutions, as the networks of Mr. Honoré Ngbanda have confirmed to us.
Now that events have fully vindicated the warnings issued by the resistance fighters, particularly those of Mr. Honoré Ngbanda, the CNRC calls on the entire Congolese people to mobilize and stand in the way of those responsible for sowing chaos, wherever they may come from.
There can be no lasting peace in the DRC without justice and truth!
The CNRC calls on the United States to respect the Congolese people’s right to genuine peace and urges Congolese people, wherever they may be, to rise up and defend the Democratic Republic of the Congo more than ever before.
In the CNRC’s view, the time has come for the Congolese people to mobilize and rally behind a **Third Way**, made up of the daughters and sons of the DRC who are ready to break decisively with the vicious cycle in which the Democratic Republic of the Congo has deliberately been trapped for decades.
This choice lies neither with Félix Tshisekedi and his collaborationism nor with Kabila, the Trojan horse of Kigali’s terrorist regime.
Long live the Third Way! More on this to come.
Ingeta!
For the Congolese National Resistance Council (CNRC)
Candide OKEKE
– Head of Strategic Coordination of the CNRC
– Collaborator of Mr. Honoré Ngbanda from 2005 to 2021
– Head of the website www.resistancecongolaise.com
– National Vice-President of APARECO Envoyé de mon iPhone
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