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🔵Breakthrough on Diplomatic Front?🔵 The United States eventually hit Rwanda’s Rwanda Defence Force with sanctions 🌐The US has imposed sanctions targeting the RDF and its senior officers, with Washington calling for an immediate withdrawal from eastern Congo and blaming Rwanda’s backing for the battlefield gains of AFC/M23. 🔸OFAC, a U.S. Treasury Department sanctions office, lists four designated individuals including Vincent Nyakarundi, Rwanda’s army chief of staff, alongside the RDF as an entity. 💬The RDF has supported M23 as it seized territory in eastern DRC, including provincial capitals Goma and Bukavu, along with strategic mining sites in eastern DRC. ⁉️ The 4 officers and RDF themselves are not particularly in danger — except for the seizure of their property in the US and the ban on transactions involving them — which can be successfully ignored as long as sanctions don't touch Rwanda's Ministry of Defense. 🔸While its a major event, the sanctions were intended as symbolic in order to demonstrate peacekeeping activity in the east of the DRC, or, more likely, to hint to Rwanda and the M23 that it was time to allow the US to access minerals under their control,which Washington clearly had its eye on. #News ✈️ Stay informed - @devilsbelow