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M23 Congolese Rebels Reinforced by Rwandan Defense Forces Target Goma

May 22, 2013

On Monday May 20, 2013, Congolese Rebels known as M23 reinforced by Rwandan Defense Forces troops launched attacks on positions held by Congolese Government forces, FARDC around Goma. The attacks, in preparation since late April 2013, threatened Goma, the provincial capital of North-Kivu Province and have sent scores of displaced into the jungles or already [...]

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How FDLR Top Commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana Was Abducted by Rwandan DMI

April 12, 2013

General Stanislas Nzeyimana aka General Deogratias Bigaruka Izabayo was abducted by Rwandan De partment of Military Intelligence (DMI) operatives in the middle of last week. He was captured in Kigoma, Tanzania on his way back to Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He had been in Tanzania since late February 2013. photo: Kagame (gray [...]

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No FDLR Combatants Have Returned to Rwanda, FDLR Sources Say

January 9, 2013

Sources close to FDLR say that no FDLR combatants have returned to Rwanda, contrary to statements by Rwandan officials. According to officials from the Ministry of Disaster and Refugee Affairs, especially Frederic Ntawukuriryayo, the communications officer and the Chairperson of the Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (RDRC), John Sayinzoga, members of the Rwandan rebels of [...]

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UN Security Council Unanimously Condemns the Seizure of Goma by M23 Rebels.

November 21, 2012

On Tuesday November 20, 2012 night the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Rwandan Government backed Congolese M23 rebels after they seized the border town of Goma. The UN Security Council also tasked the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon of Share on Facebook

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DRC: Rwandan Defense Forces’ March On Kinshasa Has Begun

July 8, 2012

Rwandan Defense Forces, under the cover of Congolese rebels known as M23, have started their 2,000-mile long march to the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kinshasa. According to our sources within Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF), the order to march on Kinshasa was given on June 30, 2012 in a final meeting [...]

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Raia Mutomboki Attacks and Destroys FDLR Reserve Brigade Headquarters

June 20, 2012

Sources in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) inform AfroAmerica Network that on Tuesday June 19, 2012, Congolese militias known as Maï-Maï Raia Mutomboki attacked the headquarters of a brigade of a Rwandan rebels organization known as the Democratic Forces of Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The brigade, known as the Reserve Brigade, Share on [...]

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Rwandan Paul Kagame Singled Out at the UN Briefing For Supporting General Bosco Ntaganda

May 23, 2012

On May 22, 2012, the UN Secretary General Special Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), Roger Meece, briefed the UN Security Council on the deteriorating situation in the DRC. During his press conference, Share on Facebook

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Scores of Rwandan Defense Forces Soldiers Killed or Injured in FARDC Counter-attack

May 14, 2012

Sources within the Congolese military, FARDC, inform AfroAmerica Network that a large number of Rwandan Government soldiers, otherwise known as Rwandan Defense Forces, have been killed or injured in a counter-attack by the FARDC supported by MONUSCO. Rwandan troops have been infiltrating the DRC as a reinforcement to CNDP rebels. Over the last week, the [...]

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Colonel Makenga: the New Rwandan Proxy Warlord in DRC

May 9, 2012

First there was the renegade General Laurent Nkunda, then the indicted war criminal General Bosco Ntaganda, and now the soon-to be General Colonel Sultani Makenga. What do they have in common? All three are from Rwandan ethnic Tutsis, who fought within Rwandan Patritiot Front Army (RPA) from 1990-1997, became part of the Rwandan Defense Forces [...]

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Rebellion Intensifies in Kivu As More FARDC Commanders Defect

April 9, 2012

The rebellion that has been simmering for the last months, especially following the November 28th, 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) presidential elections, has intensified. The latest major event to fuel the rebellion is the defection of the commander of the 805th Division of the Armed Forces of DRC (FARDC), Share on Facebook

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