Muhoozi Cainerugaba assured that he had the support of his father, the president Uganda. Arguing the threat, Uganda's chief of armed forces said that "his people of the Bahamas are under attack (near Bunia) and no 1 who does so can think that he himself will not endure for it."
Uganda's threats rise concerns that the fighting is presently taking place in the east Democratic Republic of the Congo between the Congolese forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, he stressed.
The conflict in North Kivu state in the east of the DRC broke out in 1994, just after the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, where representatives of the Hutu cultural group killed over 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi tribe. Tutsi's counteroffensive, led by Rwanda's current president Paul Kagame, put an end to genocide and allowed them to take control of the country. 2 million Hutu then fled to the DRC, risking retaliatory action by Tutsi groups surviving in that country.
One of these groups is the M23 formed in 2012. The rebels already in the past, in 2012, captured briefly Goma — the capital of North Kivu. In 2022 they began another siege of the city, winning them in January 2025. The rebels are presently conducting an offensive in another east DRC regions.
The authorities in Kinshasa accuse M23 and supporting their Rwanda of wanting to control the mineral resources of east provinces, rich in gold, diamonds, tin and coltan, among others. M23 leaders keep that they are only afraid with protecting cultural minorities from the government of the DRC, which accuses of fueling hatred between 2 cultural groups.
