Demonstrations outside US embassy in #Kinshasa as anti western sentiment ratchets up in the wake of the rebel onslaught in the east of the country.

🧵1/ Here are my thoughts about what is happening in the Congo as M23 rebels look to take control of Goma. I have covered war and peace in the Great Lakes for 23 years as a journalist, UN investigator, advisor to a UN peacekeeping mission, researcher.

Accusatory language by the #Russia backed triumvirate of countries in the #Sahel who seem to be egging on confrontation with their supposedly western-allied neighbours. Will jihadi groups become additional pawns in yet more great power competition concerning the future of #Africa?

Meanwhile in Mozambique the youth of Pemba tear down the statue of the old guard, General Chipande, who had once fought a Marxist revolutionary war to liberate the country from the colonial oppressor. youtube.com/shorts/xq3CT...