Backlash of Goma Fall: Riots in Kisangani & Student unrest in Kinshasa

The fall of Goma sparked major riots in Kisangani, the provincial

capital of Orientale.



University students, who spearheaded the riots, led the crowd of

rioters to the provincial headquarters of Joseph Kabila's party, the

PPRD--a block away from Kisangani Central Prison--which they then

torched.



Kisangani Rioters also targeted MONUSCO sites for attacks.



Both Kabila and MONUSCO are accused of being enmeshed with Rwandans.



In Kinshasa meanwhile politicians are pressuring Kabila to declare a

"state of war" with Rwanda.



The beginning of a student unrest by the restive engineering campus of

ISTA in the Barumbu Commune was quickly nipped in the bud by riot

cops.



Both Kabila an MONUSCO are now misconstrued as Rwandan allies.



Kinshasa residents, angered by Euro News footage of M23 seizing FARDC

tanks downtown Goma, are now calling for the fall of Kabila for "total

incompetence," as one of them put it to me.