{"id":29972,"date":"2025-02-08T03:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29972"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:49:13","slug":"m23-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/m23-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"M23 Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>M23 Rebels Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Rwanda-backed M23 rebels recently captured the regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<h2>About M23 Rebels<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>M23, or the <strong>March 23 Movement<\/strong>, is one of more than 100 armed groups <strong>fighting Congolese forces in<\/strong> the mineral-rich <strong>eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>M23\u2019s leadership is <strong>dominated by ethnic Tutsis<\/strong>, a <strong>minority group<\/strong> in eastern DR Congo.<\/li>\n<li>It is present in <strong>North Kivu province in areas bordering Rwanda and Uganda<\/strong> and has more than 8,000 fighters, according to the UN.<\/li>\n<li>It is<strong> named after the date in 2009<\/strong> of the<strong> signing of an accord between<\/strong> the National Congress for the Defence of the People <strong>(CNDP), a Tutsi-led rebel group, and the Congolese government<\/strong> to end a revolt led by the Tutsi people in eastern DRC.\n<ul>\n<li>The agreement promised better political representation and integration of former rebels into the Congolese army.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is alleged that <strong>Rwanda is backing the M23 rebels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why is M23 fighting Congolese forces?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>M23 was created in 2012 <\/strong>after former CNDP troops rebelled against the Congolese government, accusing it of <strong>failing to implement the 2009 agreement <\/strong>by integrating Tutsi fighters into the army, protecting minorities, and distributing resources evenly.<\/li>\n<li>It says its <strong>objective is to safeguard the interests of the Congolese Tutsi <\/strong>and other minorities, including <strong>protecting them against Hutu rebel groups who escaped to the DRC after taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that targeted Tutsis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>M23 Rebels FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What was the motive of the M23 rebels?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. M23 rebels objective is to safeguard the interests of the Congolese Tutsi and other minorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which countries border Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. DRC is bordered by Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who are Tutsis?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Tutsi is an ethnic group of probable Nilotic origin, whose members live within Rwanda and Burundi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/congo-hundreds-women-raped-burnt-alive-mass-jailbreak-goma-munzenze-prison-m23-rebel-rwanda-101738752016301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M23, or the March 23 Movement, is one of more than 100 armed groups fighting Congolese forces in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}