{"id":40357,"date":"2025-12-10T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Uvira-aux-mains-de-l-AFC-M23-ou-la-chute-d-un-verrou-que-l-on-disait-imprenable-40357\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:19:24","slug":"Uvira-aux-mains-de-l-AFC-M23-ou-la-chute-d-un-verrou-que-l-on-disait-imprenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Uvira-aux-mains-de-l-AFC-M23-ou-la-chute-d-un-verrou-que-l-on-disait-imprenable\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvira aux mains de l\u2019AFC\/M23 ou la chute d\u2019un verrou que l\u2019on disait imprenable"},"content":{"rendered":"

La prise d\u2019Uvira par l\u2019AFC\/M23 appartient sans conteste \u00e0 cette cat\u00e9gorie rare. Longtemps \u00e9rig\u00e9e en verrou imprenable, sanctuaris\u00e9e par les faux strat\u00e8ges comme un bastion o\u00f9 l\u2019\u00e9lan rebelle devait immanquablement buter, la ville a pourtant c\u00e9d\u00e9 avec une facilit\u00e9 qui confine \u00e0 l\u2019irr\u00e9m\u00e9diable. Ce qui s\u2019\u00e9tait voulu citadelle s\u2019est mu\u00e9, sous le regard stup\u00e9fait des populations, en simple th\u00e9\u00e2tre d\u2019une d\u00e9bandade orchestr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Les troupes burundaises, massivement d\u00e9ploy\u00e9es dans la plaine de la Ruzizi, avaient fait d\u2019Uvira un n\u0153ud op\u00e9rationnel, un pivot cens\u00e9 contenir l\u2019avanc\u00e9e du mouvement. \u00c0 leurs c\u00f4t\u00e9s, FARDC et milices wazalendo, engag\u00e9es dans une improbable cohabitation, se disputaient le contr\u00f4le des quartiers strat\u00e9giques au point d\u2019en venir aux armes entre elles. <\/p>\n

Le chaos interne, devenu leur seule dynamique, avait sap\u00e9 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019illusion d\u2019une d\u00e9fense coh\u00e9rente. Ainsi, avant m\u00eame l\u2019assaut final, Uvira ne tenait plus que sur les \u00e9chafaudages bancals d\u2019une alliance instable et de rivalit\u00e9s intestines.<\/p>\n

Lorsque l\u2019AFC\/M23 a lanc\u00e9 son offensive, la d\u00e9termination des combattants, alli\u00e9e \u00e0 une discipline que ses adversaires n\u2019ont jamais su \u00e9galer, a transform\u00e9 la man\u0153uvre en marche triomphale. Les autorit\u00e9s civiles, les FARDC, les FDLR dissimul\u00e9es derri\u00e8re leurs faux-semblants, les miliciens wazalendo et m\u00eame les contingents burundais ont d\u00e9tal\u00e9 comme un seul homme, abandonnant armes, positions et promesses de bravoure. <\/p>\n

Uvira est tomb\u00e9e non par la seule force du feu, mais par l\u2019effondrement moral de ceux qui la pr\u00e9tendaient ind\u00e9fendable.<\/p>\n

La jonction symbolique est d\u00e9sormais consomm\u00e9e : Uvira rejoint Goma et Bukavu, villes d\u00e9j\u00e0 soustraites au contr\u00f4le chaotique de Kinshasa, pour former un continuum territorial dont la coh\u00e9rence strat\u00e9gique ne saurait \u00eatre ignor\u00e9e. <\/p>\n

En quelques heures, c\u2019est tout un pan du narratif officiel qui s\u2019est \u00e9croul\u00e9, celui d\u2019un front consolid\u00e9, d\u2019une pr\u00e9sence \u00e9tatique ferme, d\u2019une arm\u00e9e souveraine et d\u2019une coalition r\u00e9gionale suppos\u00e9e invincible.<\/p>\n

L\u2019AFC\/M23, consciente de la port\u00e9e de ce moment, ne s\u2019y est pas tromp\u00e9e : la prise d\u2019Uvira n\u2019est pas une fin, mais l\u2019amorce d\u2019une projection in\u00e9dite, une ouverture vers le Sud, vers l\u2019ancien Katanga o\u00f9 les lignes de fracture politique et \u00e9conomique demeurent b\u00e9antes. <\/p>\n

Rien, d\u00e9sormais, n\u2019autorise \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer les ambitions de Kinshasa autrement que comme des v\u0153ux pieux ; rien ne permet d\u2019ignorer l\u2019ampleur de l\u2019effondrement militaire et politique qui se joue sous nos yeux. <\/p>\n

Uvira, que l\u2019on disait inviolable, est tomb\u00e9e comme un fruit m\u00fbr, r\u00e9v\u00e9lant l\u2019\u00e9tendue d\u2019un syst\u00e8me min\u00e9 par ses contradictions, ses d\u00e9nis et son impr\u00e9voyance structurelle.
\nCet \u00e9pisode, d\u2019une clart\u00e9 presque clinique, interroge : si un verrou r\u00e9put\u00e9 indestructible s\u2019effondre sans r\u00e9sistance, que vaut encore l\u2019\u00e9difice tout entier ? <\/p>\n

Le Congo, aujourd\u2019hui, se d\u00e9couvre fragile non par fatalit\u00e9, mais par l\u2019incurie d\u2019un pouvoir qui n\u2019a cess\u00e9 de m\u00e9priser les signaux du r\u00e9el. Et l\u2019histoire, implacable,\u00a0enregistre.<\/p>\n

\"Vue<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Il est des \u00e9v\u00e9nements dont la port\u00e9e exc\u00e8de le strict registre militaire pour rejoindre le domaine, plus grave encore, des basculements historiques. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000069714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7540],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-securite","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":4000069714,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-157.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357","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=40357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000069714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40357"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40357"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}