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Asane Sow wechselt vom FC Pro Vercelli zum FC Basel. Am Rheinknie unterschreibt der 20-Jährige für vier Jahre.

La gifle du score (0-3) n’a pas dit toute la vérité sur le match. C’est en substance ce qu’a voulu faire passer Emiliano « Dibu » Martinez, […]

L’article Dibu Martinez encense l’Algérie : « Elle va battre la Jordanie et l’Autriche » est apparu en premier sur .

Le Parlement suédois a adopté lundi une loi permettant de révoquer les titres de séjour des immigrés en raison des comportements jugés incompatibles avec le […]

L’article Titre de séjour : ce pays Schengen élargit les motifs de retrait avec une loi polémique est apparu en premier sur .

Eigentlich war geplant, dass der Iran und die USA ihr Friedensabkommen am Freitag auf dem Bürgenstock unterzeichnen. Laut einem US-Medienbericht werde aber aktuell darüber diskutiert, den Vertrag schon am Mittwoch zu unterschreiben.

L’encre du dernier examen est encore fraîche que le ministère de l’Éducation nationale a déjà enclenché la machine pour la rentrée 2026-2027. Une circulaire signée […]

L’article Rentrée scolaire 2026 – 2027 : La distribution des manuels débutera dès le 1er juillet est apparu en premier sur .

Für gewöhnlich holen YB und Basel die Kohlen aus dem europäischen Feuer, nun steigt die Super League zum ersten Mal ohne die beiden Schwergewichte ins Rennen. Das könnte fatale Folgen für die Fünfjahreswertung haben.

Handy, Laptop und Co. hängen heute fast überall am Strom. Doch was passiert, wenn Ladegeräte ständig eingesteckt bleiben? Verschwenden sie Energie, verkürzt sich ihre Lebensdauer oder steigt sogar die Brandgefahr?

Mit dem Bürgenstock-Gipfel kommt nach dem G7-Gipfel gleich die nächste sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung für unsere Polizisten. Sogar Posten werden dafür geschlossen.

A major gap in the peace accords is the lack of measures to ensure justice or accountability for past atrocities. Unless those responsible – including commanders like Makenga – face consequences for their horrific crimes in eastern Congo, impunity will continue to fuel abuse. Credit: Sam Ngenda / Shutterstock.com

By Philippe Bolopion and Clémentine de Montjoye
NEW YORK, Jun 17 2026 (IPS)

“General” Sultani Makenga stood before thousands of newly trained armed group recruits in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in February and offered them a promise. “You are now part of an army that has risen up to liberate the country and to really liberate the people,” declared Makenga, the military leader of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group.

Behind him, at the Tshanzu training camp, recruits can be seen marching in lockstep, smashing bricks with their bare hands and foreheads, leaping through flaming hoops and chanting in unison as they prepare to fight against Congolese government forces.

Not seen in this video are the M23’s executions, brutal punishment, and inhumane treatment to enforce loyalty and submission. The Tshanzu and nearby Rumangabo training camps should serve as a stark warning about the armed group – and by extension neighboring Rwanda’s role in eastern Congo.

We interviewed more than 100 former detainees who either escaped or were deployed and then surrendered to the Congolese army. Their accounts reveal the horrendous reality for those forcibly recruited. New civilian arrivals undergo an initiation ritual meant to mark their transition into military life

Backed by Rwanda’s logistical, equipment, and troop support, the M23 has captured large swathes of eastern Congo. Its effective control over the M23 makes Rwanda an occupying power, as well as criminally liable for the group’s rampant abuse. After it seized the provincial capitals of North and

South Kivu in early 2025, US President Donald Trump stepped in to revive faltering mediation efforts between Congo and Rwanda, proposing a “peace for minerals” deal to secure US interests in the region’s resource-rich east.

Two peace accords were signed — in June and December — including a ceasefire and economic-integration pact between Congo and Rwanda, which calls for the departure of Rwandan troops from Congo.

Yet Rwanda has continued to play a central role, helping the armed group to fill its ranks. While Rwandan leaders travelled to Washington discussing various peace, security and mineral agreements, M23 forces were forcibly rounding up thousands of captured Congolese soldiers and civilians, including police, civil servants, teachers and students — some as young as 12 — and sending them for training and indoctrination at military camps. The M23 picked up many from their homes, churches, schools and hospitals, summoned them to meetings under false promises of payment, or stopped them on the streets and sent them to the camps.

We interviewed more than 100 former detainees who either escaped or were deployed and then surrendered to the Congolese army. Their accounts reveal the horrendous reality for those forcibly recruited. New civilian arrivals undergo an initiation ritual meant to mark their transition into military life.

“It’s a test of how much suffering you can endure,” said a 25-year-old construction worker grabbed in the eastern city of Goma while buying phone credit in March 2025. “There were 200 of us; 10 died. Two were shot, the others whipped to death. We buried them in a mass grave with around 50 others.”

Life in the camps was marked by routine beatings and killings for minor infractions. Detainees described starvation, drinking from puddles, and licking rainwater from leaves. Some died from exhaustion, dehydration, or hunger.

Former detainees recalled limbs protruding from the ground, as bodies were often buried in shallow graves. At night dogs came to feed on the remains. It’s likely that hundreds of detainees, maybe more, died in the camps throughout 2025.

Those confined to detention cells endured even harsher treatment. Bodies were regularly pulled out of the cells for burial. When detainees were finally released to begin a new training cycle in November, scores collapsed.

Children were not spared. Boys were forced to follow military training, dig roads, cut wood, transport heavy supplies, and fetch water over long distances. Makenga selected some to serve as guards, beating other detainees.

The strategy appears to be designed to cement the control of the M23 and the Alliance Fleuve Congo – the politico-military alliance that includes the M23 – over much of eastern Congo. Rwandan forces were positioned around the camps, ready to shoot anyone who tried to flee. Recruits said they were subjected to ideology sessions, singing songs and criticizing Congo’s leadership.

Chanting in unison, the recruits in Makenga’s video display discipline and power—an army ready for war. Despite the M23’s withdrawal from some areas, and Rwanda’s signing of a peace agreement committing to removing Rwandan troops from the country, there is no indication that the conflict in

Congo is over. The M23’s mass forced recruitment campaign is evidence of a failure to confront the structures that enable such abuses.

The US has sanctioned the Rwandan army and four senior commanders. Other countries, including the European Union and the United Kingdom, should urgently follow suit and review cooperation with Rwanda that risks fueling abusive forces.

In the meantime, the US should make clear to Rwandan President Paul Kagame that causing more suffering of civilians will result in further sanctions.

A major gap in the peace accords is the lack of measures to ensure justice or accountability for past atrocities. Unless those responsible – including commanders like Makenga – face consequences for their horrific crimes in eastern Congo, impunity will continue to fuel abuse.

Philippe Bolopion is the executive director and Clémentine de Montjoye is a senior researcher, both at Human Rights Watch.

 

Nur einmal hat die Nati in ihrer goldenen Ära an einem grossen Turnier im zweiten Spiel überzeugt, das war 2018 gegen Serbien (2:1). Ansonsten ging der zweite Auftritt meistens in die Hose. Und das einzige Duell gegen Bosnien und Herzegowina hat die Schweiz verloren.

Beim Royal Ascot hat Prinzessin Kate in einem leuchtend gelben, sommerlichen Kleid für Aufsehen gesorgt. Auch ihre Mutter Carole war vor Ort und präsentierte sich in Zartrosa.

Die beiden Ghanaer Antoine Semenyo und Lawrence Ati Zigi liefern sich ein Penalty-Duell. Semenyo dominiert und trifft jedes Mal. Am 18. Juni bestreitet Ghana das erste WM-Spiel gegen Panama.

Die Diskussionen um das Stoos-Schwinget gehen weiter. Roland Knutti kritisiert die Einteiler scharf und fordert grundlegende Änderungen.

Für viele sind Hausstaub, Tierhaare und Heuschnupfen längst kein Randthema mehr, sondern tägliche Realität. Luftfilter für zu Hause versprechen Abhilfe – aber was können sie wirklich, wo liegen die Grenzen, und für wen lohnt sich welches Gerät?

Die nächste Hitzewelle trifft die Schweiz ab Donnerstag und bringt Temperaturen von über 30 Grad. Während das Flachland glüht, bieten die Berge und kühle Seen eine willkommene Abkühlung. Blick zeigt dir die besten Orte für den Frischekick.

Longue de 2,35 mètres et enfouie depuis environ un million d’années, une défense d’éléphant de l’Atlas vient d’être exhumée sur le site archéologique de Tighennif, […]

L’article « Enfouie depuis un million d’années » : L’incroyable découverte des archéologues à Mascara est apparu en premier sur .

Unerfüllter Kinderwunsch, gescheiterte künstliche Befruchtung, Wut, jahrelange Therapie. Bianca Sissing erklärt im SI.Talk, wie sie gelernt hat, loszulassen. Heute ist die 47-jährige Ex-Miss überzeugt: Sie hat die Mutterrolle bereits als Kind gelebt.

Der Nationalrat will Strafregisterauszüge bei EU- und Efta-Bürgern künftig standardmässig einführen – trotz Widerstand des Bundesrats. In der Blick-Community sorgt der Vorstoss für viel Zustimmung.

Die Influencerin Ilayda Sherifi kassiert in Zürich eine Busse von 120 Franken. Der Vorfall sorgt auf Tiktok für Gesprächsstoff.

L’équipe d’Algérie a vécu l’une des nuits les plus sombres de son histoire en Coupe du monde, battue 0-3 par l’Argentine dès son entrée en […]

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