The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday November 23rd 2022
Dark Clouds Over Eastern Congo by Rene Wadlow
As if there were not already enough tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), there is a renewal of fighting since mid-October in the province of North Kivu, Goma being the central city. The current armed conflict is between a Tutsi-led militia, M23, and the forces of the RDC government. The government estimates that some 200,000 people have been displaced. The President of the RDC, Felix Tshisekedi, has called for the creation of local militias to help the government soldiers. The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) which has been in the RDC since 1999 and is the largest U.N. peacekeeping force of some 15,000 members, has been unable to halt the fighting and is increasingly criticized by the local population.
The RDC government accuses Rwanda of being the backers of the M23, accusations which Rwanda denies. In response, the Rwanda government accuses the DRC of supporting an anti-Rwanda armed militia, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu-led militia. Both the Tutsi and the Hutu are in the RDC since the 1993 genocide fighting in Rwanda. The current fighting adds to the insecurity of the area. The fighting has also largely stopped cross-frontier commercial activities, largely done by women small traders. As a result, the price of existing food supplies has increased greatly, and shortages are to be feared.
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The Coast #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“A squall battered
The coast at night
And the trees branches
Brushed against
The cottages,
And the fishing boats
Were safely moored
In the bay.”
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Mika Toxica #41 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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