(31 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Goma - 31 October 2022
1. Various of police firing tear gas at demonstrators, UPSOUND shots
2. Demonstrators with a posters reading (French) "We are against hypocritical allies. (Russian President Vladimir) V. Putin, come save us!"
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Baraka Reponse, demonstrator:
"We need Putin here in Congo, because we are disappointed with the United States. For 60 years we have been with the United States but there is no infrastructure, the army is still what it is today, an infiltrated army."
4. Demonstrators holding poster, reading (French) "The people of Goma support the army totally"
5. Various of demonstrators marching and chanting
6. Close of a placard reading (English) "Rwanda and Uganda is killing in DR Congo"
7. Picture of Rwandan president Paul Kagame attached to a crucifix held by demonstrators
8. Various of protestors
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Amani Safari, demonstrator, civil society youth activist:
"We want to show the international community, the whole world, that their plan that they are preparing to divide the Congo, it will not pass. That's why we raise our flag in the air and show them that our country will not fall. It will remain one and indivisible and their diabolical plan of Balkanization will not succeed."
10. Protestors
11. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Elijah Sadiki, protester:
"I carry this stick to symbolise that we are at war in our country. If I am here it is because I am angry and see how the Rwandans invade us, they kill our brothers in Rutshuru. We come back and tell the population to take charge of themselves and to send a message to the international community so that it listens to us and that our prayer is listened to."
12. Demonstrators on motorbikes
13. Various of police
STORYLINE:
Police fired tear gas in an attempt to block demonstrators in Congo's eastern city of Goma who were attempting to march on the Rwandan border on Monday.
Journalists at the scene said as many as a thousand protestors took to the streets.
Congo believes that Rwanda is supporting the M23 rebels, who have expanded their control in the east of the country over the past year.
On Saturday, residents said the rebels gained control of two more towns.
In response Congo’s government ordered the Rwandan ambassador, Vincent Karega, to leave the country within 48 hours.
Rwanda on Sunday accused Congo of escalating tensions between the two countries and said its forces along the border “remain on alert.”
Congo has repeatedly accused Rwanda of backing the rebels, an allegation Rwanda has repeatedly denied.
Some protesters called for Russian support to counter the threat posed by the M23 rebel movement that has made territorial gains close to Goma in recent days.
The M23 rose to prominence more than a decade ago when its fighters seized Goma, the largest city in Congo’s east, which sits along the border with Rwanda.
After a peace deal, many of M23′s fighters were integrated into the national military.
Then the group re-emerged last November, saying the government had failed to live up to its decade-long promises.
By June, they had seized the strategic town of Bunagana near the border with Uganda.
AP videoshot by: Justin Katumwa
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