Kenya’s Congo Debacle: How Crony Elite Politics Lost The Fight Against M23

A few minutes after 5 AM on Sunday, the 3rd of December 2023, Kenyan soldiers loaded themselves into a Kenya Air Force plane and took off from the eastern DRC town of Goma, bound for Nairobi. Not long after, troops from Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan would each complete their own exodus. Except for the South [...]