AfricaNewsPoliticsAfrican Union Cautions Against Disintegration of DR Congo

Two days after the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group entered a second city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the African Union, AU, has warned against the break-up of the country.

M23 seized the provincial capital, Goma, at the end of January before pushing south in an escalation of violence in the eastern region, which has already endured decades of clashes.

Bankole Adeoye, AU’s Peace and Security Commissioner, in a statement issued on Sunday, sounded the warning.

“We don’t want a balkanization of eastern DRC. We are calling for the immediate removal of M23 and their supporters from all towns and cities, including Goma airport,” he said.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that a regional escalation must be avoided at all costs.

The conflict is said to have rattled other nations.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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