Are Congo’s Rebels Breaking Apart?
M23 keeps winning on the battlefield, but a foiled plot against leader Sultani Makenga has exposed deep rivalries within the rebellion — fractures Kinshasa has yet to exploit.
Simon Whistler • October 7, 2026
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Note: this transcript was generated by AI and may contain errors or inconsistencies.
To say the Rwandabank M23 rebel group is on a roll in the Congo right now would be a bit of an understatement. They've recently held back a government militia trying to conquer Mitamingi and retook the town of Remeka, which the government had liberated only a few days earlier.
And in the process, they managed to defeat the government's newly trained special forces unit, the Black Mambas.
Cool name, by the way. In short, things are looking good for DRC's rebels. But the key word there is looking.
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