Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi arrived in New York on September 17 to participate in the 78^th session of the UN General Assembly. He is expected to speak on September 20, about insecurity in eastern DRC.

Before his departure, Tshisekedi had already packaged the lies he will present at the Assembly. Patrick Muyaya and Rose Mutombo, government spokesperson and Minister of justice, respectively, are big chefs in the Congolese President’s kitchen of lies.

Two days prior Tshisekedi’s trip to New York, Muyaya and Mutombo presented volume 2 of the so-called “White Paper”, a collective book of, allegedly, a humanitarian tragedy and damage, caused by ‘Rwanda's continued aggression’.

Tshisekedi’s speech will be made up of the same allegations. Kinshasa has repeatedly accused Kigali of backing the M23 rebellion that reemerged in eastern DRC in late 2021 after almost a decade of dormancy.

Kigali has consistently denied the allegation, while pointing out that Kinshasa is instead heavily arming genocidal militia FDLR in a grand plan to wage war against Rwanda.

In the previous session of the UN General Assembly, in September 2022, Tshisekedi claimed that his efforts to reunite the country and pursue peaceful settlements were dragged by continual external interference, accusing Rwanda, in particular, of forming and supporting rebel movements in his country’s volatile east.

“Despite my goodwill for the search of peace, some neighbors have found no better way to thank us than to aggress and support armed groups that are ravaging eastern Congo,” Tshisekedi said.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, in the same session, noted that in eastern DRC, recent setbacks served to highlight that the security situation is fundamentally no different than it was 20 years earlier, when the largest and most expensive UN peacekeeping mission was first deployed. This exposed neighbouring states, notably Rwanda, to cross-border attacks that are entirely preventable.

“There is an urgent need to find the political will to finally address the root causes of instability in eastern DRC. The blame game does not solve the problems. These challenges are not insurmountable, and solutions can be found,” Kagame said.

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As to be expected, Tshisekedi will hardly mention the way he is sabotaging regional efforts to restore law and order in eastern DRC.

The East African Community Regional Force has done a praiseworthy job since its deployment to DRC in November 2022 but it has been subjected to a number of attacks from the Tshisekedi regime, including hundreds of violent demonstrators being unleashed against them.

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While regional leaders are working tirelessly to eliminate armed groups in eastern DRC which now total over 260, Tshisekedi is busy creating more local armed groups and equipping foreign ones. 

Tshisekedi’s agenda involves sustaining the conflict in his country so as to postpone the December elections. This will effectively give him more time to steal the polls and hence stay in power longer. Tshisekedi knows that he cannot win an election like he did not in 2018.

At the UN General Assembly, he will do everything to avoid the real national issues affecting his people – issues such as the ailing Congo Airways that suspended all flights on September 11; and the Goma carnage where the national army indiscriminately opened fire on unarmed protesters, leaving at least 56 civilians dead, 220 injured and 60 arrested, on August 30.

Generally,  Tshisekedi’s ambitions are focused on his personal political future rather than national interests. The vast natural resource-rich country’s massive development needs remain sidelined as Tshisekedi plays lethal politics.

For five years, Tshisekedi has made no effort to tackle endemic corruption, patronage politics, reform politicised institutions such as the National Electoral Commission and the Constitutional Court and break up the networks of military-economic interests that maintain the current status quo.

Tshisekedi’s administration made zero progress on promised systemic reforms to break the cycles of violence, abuse, corruption, and impunity that have plagued the country for decades.  

But he will not talk about these failures at the UN General Assembly. He will talk about Rwanda's alleged aggression. He will not tell the world about the Rwandan genocidal force, FDLR, that he continues to host and support. But he will appeal to the UN system to reprimand Rwanda for its alleged role in fueling the conflict in eastern DRC and preventing him from delivering for his people.