The US Treasury Department Thursday imposed sanctions on a Rwandan government minister and a senior member of the M23 rebel group for their alleged role in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A US Treasury Department statement says Rwanda’s Minister of State for Regional Integration, James Kabarebe, was being targeted because he is “central to Rwanda’s support” for the M23 militant group that it said was responsible for human rights abuses in the DRC. Also sanctioned was Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston, an M23 and Congo River Alliance senior member and spokesperson, plus two of his companies registered in the United Kingdom and France. Jean Paul Ruhosha, an expert in conflict resolution and director of Congo Today, tells VOA’s Douglas Mpuga, these sanctions will not help in resolving the conflict in eastern DR