The Israel-DRC partnership is a model for what smart diplomacy looks like — security cooperation, agricultural development, health care aid and technology sharing all moving forward together. Tshisekedi's visit to Jerusalem delivered realtangible results, including new agreements and a shared commitment to implementation, not just signatures on paper. Africa and Israel are building somethinga deeper relationship that looks increasingly durable and mutually beneficial.
Israel's expanding African partnerships deserve scrutiny, not celebration — covert military ties to the RSF, a militia documented as committing genocide in Sudan, reveal a troubling pattern of prioritizing strategic interests over human rights. Bilateral deals dressed up as friendship and cooperation obscure a harder truth about how these relationships actually function on the ground. Agreements, pledges and photo ops do not erase complicity in atrocities.
There is a 53 percent chance that the Democratic Republic of Congo will experience a civil war before 2036, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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