Baada ya 1994 genocide zaidi ya wahutu million 2 walikimbilia DRC na wakaanzisha permanent settlement in Eastern DRC notably North Kivu province. Tangu hapo Kigali huwachukulia wahutu hao as material threat to Rwanda's national security. While the majority of Hutus merely struggle for daily survival, they are exploited as a base for recruitment, shelter and supply by the “Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda” (FDLR)
FDLR includes several thousand members of the former Rwandan Armed Forces and Interahamwe militants primarily responsible for the 1994 genocide. They reportedly control about 50 percent of North Kivu whence they prey on ethnic Tutsis in DRC and Rwanda by murder, sexual violence, robbery and extortion.
Zipo sababu nyingi sana kwanini Kagame anaisapoti M23 na kwanini Kivu the reasons such as high- value industrial minerals including gold, diamonds, iron, wolframite (a source of tungsten) and thorium. There are also vast stores of coal, methane and natural gas. The potential value of these untapped resources is in the order of $25 Trillion.
Whoever controls the region also controls access to those riches, either through their own illegal mining operations or “security guarantees” and concessions to corporations itching to extract the resources. Kigali wants a piece of the action.
Balozi wa China aliwahi kusema "whoever controls DRC control the world"