How many more must suffer in DRC before the west stops enabling Tshisekedi? | Vava Tampa

Despite its vast mineral wealth, corruption keeps the Congolese poor - and western governments help the regime stay in power

Provisional results in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) presidential election have indicated Felix Tshisekedi is the winner. As his regime secures another five years, the incumbent will once again be looking to the west to help keep him in power, as the US government did in 2018.

The DRC has lurched from crisis to crisis for more than 20 years. This is in part because the west has blocked the creation of an international criminal tribunal for the country, which is needed to end the culture of impunity fuelling violence, famine and the climate crisis killing and displacing Congolese people.