{"id":39395,"date":"2025-09-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-diplomatie-s-incline-devant-le-mercenariat-en-RDC-39395\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:17:29","slug":"La-diplomatie-s-incline-devant-le-mercenariat-en-RDC","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/La-diplomatie-s-incline-devant-le-mercenariat-en-RDC\/","title":{"rendered":"La diplomatie s\u2019incline devant le mercenariat en RDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La rencontre entre le pr\u00e9sident F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi et Erik Prince, figure controvers\u00e9e du mercenariat international et fondateur de Frontier Services Group, illustre ce d\u00e9calage inqui\u00e9tant. Il ne s\u2019agit plus seulement d\u2019une coop\u00e9ration ponctuelle, mais de l\u2019\u00e9ventuelle prolongation d\u2019un engagement qui consacre l\u2019id\u00e9e qu\u2019un \u00c9tat souverain peut externaliser sa force militaire \u00e0 des acteurs priv\u00e9s, motiv\u00e9s par le profit et non par la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 collective.<\/p>\n<p>Cette d\u00e9marche, qui se superpose aux processus de paix officiels et aux n\u00e9gociations internationales, trahit une logique bien connue de ceux qui privil\u00e9gient l\u2019efficacit\u00e9 imm\u00e9diate \u00e0 la durabilit\u00e9 : la guerre comme instrument d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats mesquins. La multiplication des groupes de mercenaires op\u00e9rant sur le territoire congolais, chacun avec ses propres tarifs, m\u00e9thodes, commandements et zones de d\u00e9ploiement, traduit un chaos strat\u00e9gique o\u00f9 la coordination et la loyaut\u00e9 sont secondaires face \u00e0 la promesse d\u2019une victoire rapide. La R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, nation pourtant \u00e9reint\u00e9e par des d\u00e9cennies de conflits, semble renouer avec une pratique p\u00e9rilleuse : confier sa souverainet\u00e9 militaire \u00e0 des entit\u00e9s priv\u00e9es, dont la fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 est proportionnelle au montant de leurs contrats et non \u00e0 la stabilit\u00e9 du pays.<\/p>\n<p>Cette course au mercenariat expose une v\u00e9rit\u00e9 inqui\u00e9tante : le pouvoir politique, lorsqu\u2019il est confront\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019impopularit\u00e9 de sa propre arm\u00e9e ou \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chec d\u2019un commandement national, se tourne vers des solutions ponctuelles et externalis\u00e9es, dans l\u2019espoir illusoire qu\u2019elles inverseront le cours d\u2019un conflit profond\u00e9ment enracin\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>Esp\u00e9rer que des mercenaires \u00e9trangers viendront mettre l\u2019AFC\/M23 en d\u00e9route est non seulement un pari risqu\u00e9, mais \u00e9galement un aveu implicite de la faiblesse structurelle des forces arm\u00e9es nationales. On retrouve l\u00e0 un adage mill\u00e9naire : \u00ab Qui veut la paix pr\u00e9pare la guerre \u00bb, mais dans une version d\u00e9voy\u00e9e, o\u00f9 la guerre n\u2019est plus pr\u00e9par\u00e9e pour d\u00e9fendre la nation, mais pour prolonger des int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e9troits, consolider un pouvoir fragile et masquer les insuffisances du dispositif \u00e9tatique.<\/p>\n<p>En d\u00e9finitive, le recours aux mercenaires \u00e9trangers en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo n\u2019est pas seulement une strat\u00e9gie militaire ; il constitue un indicateur r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur de priorit\u00e9s invers\u00e9es. La paix y est instrumentalis\u00e9e, l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat national relativis\u00e9, et la guerre \u00e9rig\u00e9e en outil de sauvegarde politique et financi\u00e8re. <\/p>\n<p>Tant que ces logiques persisteront, le pays restera prisonnier d\u2019un cycle pernicieux : celui o\u00f9 la diplomatie et le droit international sont rel\u00e9gu\u00e9s au rang de d\u00e9cor, tandis que la force priv\u00e9e, motiv\u00e9e par l\u2019app\u00e2t du gain, devient le v\u00e9ritable arbitre du destin\u00a0congolais.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-66507 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/ep-5.jpg\" alt=\"Erik Prince, figure controvers\u00e9e du mercenariat international et fondateur de Frontier Services Group\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il est des paradoxes qui, dans leur cruaut\u00e9, r\u00e9v\u00e8lent l\u2019\u00e2me d\u2019un r\u00e9gime et les priorit\u00e9s r\u00e9elles d\u2019un \u00c9tat. Tandis que le monde entier appelle \u00e0 la paix et que les instruments diplomatiques peinent \u00e0 se d\u00e9ployer efficacement en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, Kinshasa semble opter pour une strat\u00e9gie alternative, plus cynique et davantage r\u00e9v\u00e9latrice de ses ambitions personnelles que de l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000066506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000066506,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ep_cp-5.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000066506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39395"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39395"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}