Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo meets Pope Francis at the Vatican. The summit, decided for some time, follows the violence that broke out in Kinshasa in just a few hours, costing the lives of about 100 people.
Only in August Pope Francis expressed himself with indignation about the silent massacres that continue without interruption in the African country.
Joseph Kabila, son of the Kabila who freed the Congo from the yoke of Mobutu in the 1996 between massacres and violence of all kinds, is the current leader of a country devastated by twenty years of war. Charges of violation of human rights and genocide have been pouring down on him.
Despite the controversial intervention of the MONUC (Mission of the Organization of the United Nations in République démocratique du Congo) with its actual 17000, the former Zaire has not found peace.
After the first civil war, only with the Second Congo War (at the beginning of the millennium a galaxy of rebel militias from the east supported by the Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi regulars clashed with the armies of Congo, Angola, Chad and Zimbabwe) were counted almost 3 million deaths between direct and indirect deaths. With subsequent rebellions in Kivu there is talk of hundreds of thousands more dead and displaced.
After a brief period of apparent stalemate, the perennial political crisis that divides Kinshasa from the eastern regions has once again turned gangrenous. The heart of Africa appears again on the brink of the massacre.
(photo: FarodiRoma-FARDC)
