{"id":289821,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289821"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:26:41","slug":"europes-shameful-role-in-the-war-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/europes-shameful-role-in-the-war-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Shameful Role in the War in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>11 Mar 2025 &#8211;<em> European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda\u2019s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_289822\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congo-drc-rwanda-europe.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289822\" class=\"wp-image-289822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congo-drc-rwanda-europe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congo-drc-rwanda-europe.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congo-drc-rwanda-europe-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/congo-drc-rwanda-europe-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-289822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M-23 rebels guard a unit of surrendering Congolese military troops recruited into the rebel group on 22 Feb 2025, in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.<br \/>(Hugh Kinsella Cunningham \/ Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2025\/03\/europe-war-congo-rwanda-m-23\" >TO READ FULL ARTICLE Go to Original &#8211; jacobin.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Mar 2025 &#8211; European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda\u2019s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[237,2479,1991,1268,1412],"class_list":["post-289821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-africa","tag-civil-war","tag-d-r-congo","tag-european-union","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289823,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289821\/revisions\/289823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}