SADC-EAC Joint Summit in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania on 02-08-2025
On February 8, 2025, Congolese President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi declined to attend to physically attend the Joint SADC-EAC Summit in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, on the worsening security crisis in Eastern the Democratic Republic of the Congo, caused by Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) who have invaded the DRC under the cover of M23 rebels and reinforced by Ugandan People Defense Forces (UPDF). He, instead, sent the Congolese Prime Minister Judith Suminwa as his representative and participated virtually. This is a second decline to attend such meetings, that appear to be setups and masquerades by some African leaders to cover their questionable and controversial agendas.
As the Joint SADC-EAC Summit meeting was being held, the Rwandan government was reinforcing its Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) troops in South-Kivu, heading towards the town of Bukavu. Meanwhile, the World community, including the United Nations, European Union, the United States of America, continue to express worries. Independent observers, journalists, and political analysts continue to point to these setup meetings as prelude to a potential human tragedy similar to the one in Rwanda in 1994, following the assassination of the late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, on his way back from a similar meeting Arusha, Tanzania.