UN mission has been ‘unable to stabilise’ the Congo since the end of the 1994 Rwanda genocide

The Rwanda-backed M23 militia captured most of the key eastern DR Congo town of Uvira late on Wednesday, in a move Burundi called a “middle finger” to the United States after the signing of a peace deal in Washington. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Picard welcomes fellow journalist, and DR Congo correspondent, Emmet Livingstone and Jervin Naidoo, Political Analyst at Oxford Economics in Cape Town.