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RCongo rebel leader says sanctions, any minerals deal with the

U.S. won’t stop fighting in the east

By CHINEDU ASADU lese forces in January, the
Associated Press M23 rebels have captured
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The the cities of Goma and Bu-
leader of the rebels who kavu and several towns in
captured two key cities in eastern Congo, prompting
eastern Congo tells The As- fears of regional war involv-
sociated Press that interna- ing neighbors whose militar-
tional sanctions and Con- ies are also on the ground.
go’s proposed minerals Efforts to achieve a cease-
deal with the United States fire collapsed last week
in search of peace will not after the rebels pulled out
stop the fighting. of talks facilitated by An-
With a $5 million bounty gola, condemning Euro-
placed on the rebel lead- pean Union sanctions on
ers by Congo’s govern- its leaders. Angola on Mon-
ment, “we will fight like day said its president and
people who got nothing to chairperson of the African
lose in order to secure the Union, Joao Lourenco, was
future of our country,” said withdrawing as the key me-
Corneille Nangaa, leader diator to focus on Africa’s
of the Congo River Alliance general peace and secu-
that includes the Rwanda- rity. Another country will
backed M23 rebel group. take over mediation efforts,
Nangaa dismissed Congo- ebel leader of group of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) including M23, Corneille Nangaa, addresses it said.
a news conference in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
lese President Felix Tshiseke- Associated Press Also Monday, the M23 reb-
di’s comments last week els said their planned with-
that his country whose drawal from the strategic
mineral resources are esti- istration’s recent offer to credibility.” Congo’s government if town of Walikale, which
mated to be worth $24 tril- Ukraine to help end the war The rebel leader also re- the country acknowledges they captured last week, is
lion and critical to much of with Russia. jected the outcome of last their grievances and the delayed because Congo-
the world’s technology is “This problem can be better week’s meeting between root causes of the conflict. lese forces are allegedly still
looking for a minerals part- resolved by the concerned Congolese and Rwandan “Anything regarding us positioned in the area with
nership with the U.S. Congolese, not foreigners leaders in Qatar, saying which are done without attack drones. M23 spokes-
The U.S. government has with different geopolitical such a move to achieve us, it’s against us,” Nangaa man Lawrence Kanyuka
not publicly spoken about agendas,” Nangaa told peace without his group’s said. said their presence “com-
any such deal, which lo- the AP over the weekend. involvement would fail. Since launching a major promises” peace initiatives.
cal observers say could be “Trying to bribe U.S. with He said the rebels can escalation of their decade- The AP has reached out to
similar to the Trump admin- mines can undermine U.S. only have a dialogue with long fighting with Congo- Congo’s military.q

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels kill at least 1

person, group says

By JON GAMBRELL fered any specifics on the Sunday hit a building in a Marib province, home to 53 people immediately af-
Associated Press sites it is striking, though western neighborhood of oil and gas fields still under ter they began March 15,
DUBAI, United Arab Emir- Trump’s national secu- Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, the control of allies to Ye- started after the Houthis
ates (AP) — U.S. airstrikes rity adviser Mike Waltz killing at least one person men’s exiled central gov- threatened to begin tar-
targeting Yemen’s Houthi claimed the attacks have and wounding 13 others, ernment. The campaign geting “Israeli” ships again
rebels pounded sites “taken out key Houthi the rebel-controlled SABA of airstrikes targeting the over Israel blocking aid en-
across the country over- leadership, including their news agency said, cit- rebels, which killed at least tering the Gaza Strip. q
night and into Monday, head missileer.” That’s ing health officials. Foot-
with the group saying the something so far that’s not age released by the reb-
one attack in the capital been acknowledged by els showed the rubble of
killed at least one person the Houthis, though the a collapsed building and
and wounded more than rebels have downplayed pools of blood staining
a dozen others. their losses in the past and the gray dust covering the
The American strikes on the exaggerated their at- ground.
rebels, who threaten mari- tacks attempting to target A building next to the col-
time trade and Israel, en- American warships. lapsed structure still stood,
tered their 10th day with- “We’ve hit their headquar- suggesting American forc-
out any sign of stopping. ters,” Waltz told CBS’ “Face es likely used a lower-yield
They are part of a cam- the Nation” on Sunday. warhead in the strike.
paign by U.S. President “We’ve hit communica- The Houthis also described
Donald Trump targeting tions nodes, weapons fac- American airstrikes tar-
the rebel group while also tories and even some of geting sites around the
trying to pressure Iran, the their over-the-water drone city of Saada, a Houthi A Yemeni views the debris of a building after it was struck by
Houthis’ main benefactor. production facilities.” stronghold, the Red Sea U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 24, 2025.
So far, the U.S. has not of- An apparent U.S. strike port city of Hodeida and Associated Press