Us turns to spycraft to halt spread of congo’s deadly conflict
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October 16, 2024 at 10:00 PM EDT Last November, America’s top spy landed in Kinshasa with an unusual offer for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, Felix Tshisekedi: The US would
share secret intelligence with his government in return for his participation in a cease-fire in one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
told Tshisekedi that the US would highlight the movements of the powerful M23 rebel group that’s active in the eastern DRC, a mineral-rich region home to a conflict that’s raged on-and-off
for more than 30 years. Haines made a similar offer to Rwandan President Paul Kagame during a trip to Kigali, which US and United Nations officials say backs M23.