How an IT manager from Canada was appointed vice-governor by the rebels in the Congo

When the M23 rebel leader introduces him to the mass as the new vice-governor of the city just conquered, Manzi Willy Ngarambe stands up a little reserved from his chair on the stage. He moves his suit nervously, steps forward, waves the 50,000 in the Congo City of Goma in the stadium. There is polite applause. But most of them do not know the 39-year-old, who is introduced to them as a “young, lively force”. And from then on the second most powerful man in her province of North-Kivu will be.