US EditionDRC President Tshisekedi Urges UN to Recognize "Silent Genocide" in Eastern Congo
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This is the great diplomatic meeting of the re-entry: the General Assembly of the United Nations began yesterday, Tuesday, 23 September, in New York. In the rostrum, as it had already done before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, made a strong appeal to the international community to recognize what he calls "congolese genocide".
DRC President Tshisekedi urges UN to recognize "silent genocide" in eastern Congo
At the 2025 UN General Assembly, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi issued a stark warning to the international community, describing the ongoing violence in eastern Congo as a “silent genocide.”
The eastern part of the country – a region on Rwanda's border rich in natural resources, including minerals – has been torn apart by conflicts for thirty years. Violence intensified in early 2025.
The Congolese President denounced Rwanda's "manoeuvring" to delay the implementation of the peace agreement. Kigali would seek "to save time for the crisis to worsen".
The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has appealed this Tuesday to the...
"This is not just a conflict: it is a silent genocide that has afflicted the Congolese people for more than thirty years," he said in reference to a conflict to which he has attributed "disaster consequences: millions of dead, decimated families, almost seven million displaced, women and children attacked, villages erased from the map, generations sacrificed." "In several regions of the East, all signs of an extermination plan are present," he a…
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