{"id":1265026,"date":"2022-12-14T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/look-dr-congo-leader-blames-climate-change-for-devastating-floods\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:41:47","slug":"look-dr-congo-leader-blames-climate-change-for-devastating-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/look-dr-congo-leader-blames-climate-change-for-devastating-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK: DR Congo leader blames climate change for devastating floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/217e6a12-6a31-562d-9ca1-cbdb4e51ddf4&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x402&amp;resize=3500x1968\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Washington, United States \u2013  The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the United States on Tuesday in blaming climate change for major floods that have claimed around 100 lives in the capital Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DRC is under pressure but unfortunately it\u2019s not sufficiently heard or supported,\u201d President Felix Tshisekedi told Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they met at a US-Africa summit in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding is an example of \u201cwhat we have been deploring for some time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSupport must come from countries that pollute and unfortunately trigger the harmful consequences in our countries that lack the means to protect themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken offered condolences for the deaths, saying the flooding was \u201cfurther evidence of the challenges we are facing with climate and something we need to work on together.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"baobab-embedded-image\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/resize\/650x65000?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/536c6d91-e441-57d5-9cb2-b629c856a1e3\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\"\/><figcaption>People stand watch after heavy rains caused floods and landslides, on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Picture: Jude Dibawa\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite a series of international conferences, scientists say the planet is far off course from meeting a UN-blessed goal of checking warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken was also speaking to Tshisekedi as the United States puts pressure on Rwanda to stop alleged support for M23 rebels who have made rapid advances in the eastern DRC.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur country is unfortunately the victim of a secret aggression by Rwanda through the M23 movement,\u201d Tshisekedi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is causing serious destabilization in part of our country that is already in distress, with hundreds of thousands of displaced living in precarious conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda, whose President Paul Kagame is also in Washington, denies support to the M23, which is mostly made of Congolese Tutsis.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Rwanda and DR Congo have been strained since the mass arrival in the eastern DRC of Rwandan Hutus accused of slaughtering Tutsis during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, United States \u2013 The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the United States on Tuesday in blaming climate change for major floods that have claimed around 100 lives in the capital Kinshasa. \u201cThe DRC is under pressure but unfortunately it\u2019s not sufficiently heard or supported,\u201d President Felix Tshisekedi told Secretary of State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}