November 2011

Mai-Mai Cheka Slapped with Sanctions by the UN Security Council

November 30, 2011

On 28 November 2011, the United Nations Security Council has slapped the notorious Congolese warlord, Ntabo Ntaberi also known as Mai-Mai Cheka or Sheka, of sanctions. The UN accuses him of carrying out attacks on mines in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including taking over the Bisiye mines and extorting from locals. Mai-Mai [...]

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The West and South Africa Working on Succession Plan in Rwanda, DRC, and Uganda

November 24, 2011

AfroAmerica Network has learned that the West and South Africa have been developing power succession plans for three countries in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda. The plans, already in advanced stages, include three scenarios: Succession through elections Succession through peacefully handing over power Coup-d’etat [...]

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Boniface Rucagu, RPF Militia Chief, Grilled Over Relationship with Gatebuke, a US-Based Rwandan Activist

November 24, 2011

Sources close to the National Intelligence Security Services (NISS) have informed AfroAmerica Network that Boniface Rucagu, the head of Intore, the youth militia of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), has been undergoing tough interrogations over his relationships with a United States based Rwandan human rights activist named Gatebuke. It is alleged that a certain [...]

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FDLR Commander Colonel Sadiki Killed by Mai-Mai Cheka

November 21, 2011

The FDLR commander of the most active battalion in North Kivu, Colonel Jean Marie-Vianney Kanzeguhera, aka  Colonel Evariste aka Colonel Sadiki was killed by the Congolese Mai-Mai Sheka aka Cheka on Sunday November 20, 2011, sources within  MONUSCO tell AfroAmerica Network. The Mai-Mai Sheka killed him during an ambush and in an apparent assassination. Colonel Sadiki was [...]

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Rwandan Ruling Party, RPF, Plans to Seize Property From Congolese-Rwandan Citizens

November 18, 2011

Sources within the office of the Secretary General of the ruling party, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), inform AfroAmerica Network that the RPFis finalizing a plan to expropriate businessmen who have a dual Rwandan-Congolese citizenship and confiscate their property to the benefits of the party. AfroAmerica Network has obtained the list of the people targeted. The [...]

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Joseph Bideri, CEO of Rwandan Intelligence Media, New Times, Arrested

November 14, 2011

Joseph Bideri, the Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Rwandan Intelligence Services’ news media group, New Times, has been arrested over the night, AfroAmerica Network correspondents in Kigali report. The New Times is an umbrella of news media controlled by Rwandan Intelligence services. It includes the New Times English daily newspaper, the Sunday Times English [...]

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French Judge To Confirm Habyarimana Juvenal Plane Shot Down by RPF

November 1, 2011

Sources close to the French Judiciary system tell AfroAmerica Network that the French Judges Marc Trevin and Nathalie Poux will soon publish their long awaited report on the April 6, 1994 shooting down of the plane carrying the Rwandan and Burundian presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira and their staff. The assassination of the two [...]

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ECC Denounces Massacre of Rwandan Refugees in Shabunda by Congolese Militia

November 1, 2011

Eglise du Christ au Congo, ECC, has accused the Congolese militias known as Raiya Mutomboki of massacring 49 Rwandan Hutu refugees in the night of 22-23 October 2011. In a statement sent out by the Eglise du Christ au Congo (ECC) and received by AFroAmerica Network, ECC gives details on the attacks by the Raiya [...]

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Rwandan Troops Massacre Congolese Hutu in Jomba, Kivu.

November 1, 2011

Sources close to the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) tell AfroAmerica Network that Rwandan Defense Forces units, that include several ex-rebels from the CNDP and the FDLR who had returned to Rwandan in the last years, have launched operations in the area of Jomba and Rutshuru over the week of [...]

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