Hopes for an historic reset linking security to a US-backed minerals and infrastructure deal have been overshadowed by fresh fighting displacing 200,000 people
It has taken less than a week for a brutal reality to intrude on the brash hopes for the peace accord signed between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda in Washington DC on 4 December. Fighting, which has driven some 200,000 people from their homes over the past month, was raging in eastern Congo as officials gathered in the US capital. And five days after the accord was signed, the Rwandan-backed Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) militia seized control of Uvira, the third biggest city in the mineral-rich Kivu provinces.