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Kivu Insurgency: PARECO and FARDC Deserters Take Up Arms Against FARDC and Rwandan Troops

February 16, 2012

Sources in Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) inform AfroAmerica Network that the long feared insurgency has started. The insurgency has been predicted by many observers following the November 28, 2011 controversial elections in DRC, which saw the opposition leaders win elections, but the incumbent seize power (see our December 2, 2011 article: Kivu [...]

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No FDLR General Surrendered, FARDC sources say

February 2, 2012

Contrary to reports, initially published by the chinese news agency Xhinua Net, that three generals within the Rwandan rebels of the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), no FDLR general has surrendered, sources within the Congolese military, FARDC in Goma told AfroAmerica Network. According to Xinhua Net breaking news in French of February 1, [...]

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FDLR Chief of Staff General Leodomir Mugaragu Killed by a Commando

January 13, 2012

The FDLR Chief of Staff, General Leodomir Mugaragu was killed on Wednesday night January 11, 2012 by a military commando, believed to be from Rwanda but working with and under the cover of Congolese Local Defense Forces known as Mai-Mai Guides, sources within  MONUSCO tell AfroAmerica Network. The commando killed him inside his residence in an [...]

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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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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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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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The Dilemma of Dictators Part IV: One Down, More to Go: Focus on Paul Kagame of Rwanda

October 23, 2011

In Part III of our series, the Dilemma of Dictators, we urged dictators to break the cycle of violence and fade away in peace, instead of being haunted by the ghosts of their crimes for years in dark cells, if not killed in the process, meeting the same fate as Samuel Doe, Nicolae Ceausescu, and [...]

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General Paul Kagame Assassinated President Juvenal Habyarimana, Former RPF Secretary General and Kagame’s Chief of Staff Says

October 1, 2011

On October 1, 2011, Major Dr Theogene Rudasingwa, former Secretary General of the Rwandan ruling party, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, and Chief of Staff for President Paul Kagame has revealed, in a press release to the media obtained by AfroAmerica Network, that the current Rwandan President is directly [...]

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