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- MBARUSHIMANA, Callixte, Thiais, France; Paris, France; DOB 24 Jul 1963; POB Ndusu/Ruhengeri, Northern Province, Rwanda; alt. POB Ruhengeri Province, Rwanda; citizen Rwanda; FDLR Executive Secretary (individual) [DRCONGO]
- MUDACUMURA, Sylvestre (a.k.a. COMMANDANT PHARAON; a.k.a. MUKANDA; a.k.a. MUPENZI, Bernard; a.k.a. MUPENZI, General Pierre Bernard; a.k.a. RADJA), Kibua, North Kivu, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; DOB 1955; POB Karago, Western Province, Rwanda; citizen Rwanda; Major General; Commander FDLR/FOCA (individual) [DRCONGO]
- MUJYAMBERE, Leopold (a.k.a. ACHILLE; a.k.a. IBRAHIM, Frere Petrus; a.k.a. MUSENYERI), Mwenga, South Kivu Province, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; DOB 17 Mar 1962; alt. DOB 1966; POB Kigali, Rwanda; citizen Rwanda; Colonel; Commander, FDLR CO 2nd Division (individual) [DRCONGO]
- NTAWUNGUKA, Pacifique (a.k.a. COLONEL OMEGA; a.k.a. NTAWUNGULA, Pacifique; a.k.a. NZERI), Peti, Walikale, Masisi Border, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; DOB 1 Jan 1964; alt. DOB 1964; POB Gaseke, Gisenyi Province, Rwanda; Colonel; Commander of FDLR 1st Division (individual) [DRCONGO]
- NZEYIMANA, Stanislas (a.k.a. BIGARUKA; a.k.a. BIGARUKA IZABAYO, Deogratias; a.k.a. BIGARURA; a.k.a. IZABAYO DEO), Kalonge, Masisi, North Kivu, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; Kibua, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; DOB 1 Jan 1966; alt. DOB 28 Aug 1966; alt. DOB 1967; POB Mugusa (Butare), Rwanda; citizen Rwanda; Brig. General; Deputy Overall Commander FOCA (individual) [DRCONGO]
Showing posts with label DRCongo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DRCongo. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Four Officers of FDLR DR Congo, Has US Assets Frozen, bans Interactions
The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN list, effective 3/4/09
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Civil War in the East covering International Conflict Diamond Activity in the West?
I have not commented in detail to date about DR Congo's current Civil war, because it is not clear to me yet the real objectives of the war. The government does not seem to have any real solutions except the status-quo. The rebels seem to not have any real idea about what they want to do or accomplish.
So the usually suspects are likely to be supplying the arms and logistics to both sides.
-I suspect the real story in the Congos is what is going on in the diamond mines...
so, back to the Civil War....
-Shimron
BULENGO, Congo, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Civilians in Congo's conflict-torn North Kivu province are bearing the brunt of instability there as warring factions step up forced recruitment and a humanitarian crisis deepens.
Jean-Paul Kakuti was attending his village school when he was kidnapped by fighters loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, who are battling Democratic Republic of Congo's army in the lawless eastern province.
"When they took me, I was with about 30 others. They took lots of school children and teachers," Kakuti said as he waited in a U.N. refugee agency tent in Bulengo, just west of the provincial capital, Goma. "They wanted us to fight alongside them, to become rebels like them."
A tense stalemate reigns in North Kivu after an informal U.N.-brokered ceasefire helped end heavy fighting last month. Intermittent skirmishes continue between Nkunda's fighters, government forces, local militia, and Rwandan rebels.
With no concrete efforts under way to negotiate a settlement to the current situation, North Kivu's civilian population is suffering an intensifying humanitarian crisis.
More than 90,000 people were displaced by last month's fighting and there are worrying signs the situation could soon worsen.
The Congolese army, considered by human rights groups as the country's worst human rights abuser, has poured thousands of extra troops into the province to battle Nkunda.
Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission accuses Nkunda, local militia, and Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels of forcibly recruiting fighters, in some cases minors. The indications point towards preparations for the next round of fighting.
"It's really an explosive situation that can change overnight," said Philippe Havet, a doctor at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the isolated town of Masisi. "We don't know what will happen tomorrow. That much is completely clear."
HUMANITARIAN WOES
Even before the latest round of fighting, more than 270,000 civilians had fled fighting in North Kivu since the beginning of the year. Few dare return home, causing camps to balloon and placing a strain on local communities that have welcomed them.
Uncounted thousands more have been cut off from assistance, as transport routes have been transformed into frontlines.
"Access to people has become a real challenge. North Kivu is divided," said Aya Shneerson, the U.N. World Food Programme's director in North Kivu. "No one is going home, because the situation is unclear. There are places where people urgently need help that we can't get to."
At the hospital in Masisi, one of the few operating in the area, a team from the Belgian chapter of MSF carries out an average of 1,000 consultations per week. The 73-bed facility currently houses 130 patients and medical supplies must be flown in by helicopter to avoid ambushes on the road from Goma.
"They come walking sometimes from 20 km (12 miles) away," Havet told Reuters by phone from Masisi. "There are some who have to wait two days to be treated."
Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission has been pushing for negotiations to end the crisis and former colonial ruler Belgium is calling for the appointment of a special outside mediator for North Kivu.
"It's clear that a political solution is needed, and quickly. The humanitarian consequences of drawn-out instability in North Kivu are pretty dire, maybe a million displaced by the end of the year," said one western diplomat.
"There seems to be a lack of political will from both sides to have meaningful talks.
The Rest @ Reuters Africa
So the usually suspects are likely to be supplying the arms and logistics to both sides.
-I suspect the real story in the Congos is what is going on in the diamond mines...
- Who is mining, them?
- where are they going to get "Kimberly-ized"?
- Are they just being sold to an emerging non-DeBeers diamond trade being run by the Russians?
so, back to the Civil War....
-Shimron
BULENGO, Congo, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Civilians in Congo's conflict-torn North Kivu province are bearing the brunt of instability there as warring factions step up forced recruitment and a humanitarian crisis deepens.
Jean-Paul Kakuti was attending his village school when he was kidnapped by fighters loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, who are battling Democratic Republic of Congo's army in the lawless eastern province.
"When they took me, I was with about 30 others. They took lots of school children and teachers," Kakuti said as he waited in a U.N. refugee agency tent in Bulengo, just west of the provincial capital, Goma. "They wanted us to fight alongside them, to become rebels like them."
A tense stalemate reigns in North Kivu after an informal U.N.-brokered ceasefire helped end heavy fighting last month. Intermittent skirmishes continue between Nkunda's fighters, government forces, local militia, and Rwandan rebels.
With no concrete efforts under way to negotiate a settlement to the current situation, North Kivu's civilian population is suffering an intensifying humanitarian crisis.
More than 90,000 people were displaced by last month's fighting and there are worrying signs the situation could soon worsen.
The Congolese army, considered by human rights groups as the country's worst human rights abuser, has poured thousands of extra troops into the province to battle Nkunda.
Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission accuses Nkunda, local militia, and Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels of forcibly recruiting fighters, in some cases minors. The indications point towards preparations for the next round of fighting.
"It's really an explosive situation that can change overnight," said Philippe Havet, a doctor at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the isolated town of Masisi. "We don't know what will happen tomorrow. That much is completely clear."
HUMANITARIAN WOES
Even before the latest round of fighting, more than 270,000 civilians had fled fighting in North Kivu since the beginning of the year. Few dare return home, causing camps to balloon and placing a strain on local communities that have welcomed them.
Uncounted thousands more have been cut off from assistance, as transport routes have been transformed into frontlines.
"Access to people has become a real challenge. North Kivu is divided," said Aya Shneerson, the U.N. World Food Programme's director in North Kivu. "No one is going home, because the situation is unclear. There are places where people urgently need help that we can't get to."
At the hospital in Masisi, one of the few operating in the area, a team from the Belgian chapter of MSF carries out an average of 1,000 consultations per week. The 73-bed facility currently houses 130 patients and medical supplies must be flown in by helicopter to avoid ambushes on the road from Goma.
"They come walking sometimes from 20 km (12 miles) away," Havet told Reuters by phone from Masisi. "There are some who have to wait two days to be treated."
Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission has been pushing for negotiations to end the crisis and former colonial ruler Belgium is calling for the appointment of a special outside mediator for North Kivu.
"It's clear that a political solution is needed, and quickly. The humanitarian consequences of drawn-out instability in North Kivu are pretty dire, maybe a million displaced by the end of the year," said one western diplomat.
"There seems to be a lack of political will from both sides to have meaningful talks.
The Rest @ Reuters Africa
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Uganda and DR Congo Troubles Continue
11 September, 2007
Uganda has denied massing troops on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, as revealed over the past days by Congolese military sources to Radio Okapi of the United Nations Mission in DR-Congo (MONUC).
“It is completely not true that we have deployed in the said areas at a time where the two countries are engaged in talks. We are simply monitoring our borders because some indisciplined Congolese soldiers have attacked the Ugandan territory in the last month”,
Uganda’s military spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye told Reuters. At a summit on Saturday in Arusha, in northern Tanzania, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila agreed to end their border territory dispute and crate a common front against attempts to destabilise east DR-Congo, where UN peacekeepers are attempting to preserve a shaky cease-fire between rebels and regular forces.
Based on the Arusha accord, all armed movements of Ugandan origin will leave Congolese territory within 90 days and Uganda will have to withdraw its troops still present in the Mahagi territory, a few dozen kilometres from the border.
According to Radio Okapi, the Ugandan troops occupied some areas along the border, such as Kolokoto, a fishing village 54km from Mahagi, straight after Congolese forces left the area. The MONUC military spokesman, Major Gabriel de Brosses, told MISNA from Kinshasa that he had no elements to confirm the troop movements.
Incidents multiplied in the past months between the Ugandan and Congolese armed forces in the Lake Albert area, according to analysts, over the strong progress achieved in the oil sector by companies operating in Ugandan territory, accused by Congolese authorities of continuous border trespassing.
The Rest @ MISNA
Uganda has denied massing troops on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, as revealed over the past days by Congolese military sources to Radio Okapi of the United Nations Mission in DR-Congo (MONUC).
“It is completely not true that we have deployed in the said areas at a time where the two countries are engaged in talks. We are simply monitoring our borders because some indisciplined Congolese soldiers have attacked the Ugandan territory in the last month”,
Uganda’s military spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye told Reuters. At a summit on Saturday in Arusha, in northern Tanzania, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila agreed to end their border territory dispute and crate a common front against attempts to destabilise east DR-Congo, where UN peacekeepers are attempting to preserve a shaky cease-fire between rebels and regular forces.
Based on the Arusha accord, all armed movements of Ugandan origin will leave Congolese territory within 90 days and Uganda will have to withdraw its troops still present in the Mahagi territory, a few dozen kilometres from the border.
According to Radio Okapi, the Ugandan troops occupied some areas along the border, such as Kolokoto, a fishing village 54km from Mahagi, straight after Congolese forces left the area. The MONUC military spokesman, Major Gabriel de Brosses, told MISNA from Kinshasa that he had no elements to confirm the troop movements.
Incidents multiplied in the past months between the Ugandan and Congolese armed forces in the Lake Albert area, according to analysts, over the strong progress achieved in the oil sector by companies operating in Ugandan territory, accused by Congolese authorities of continuous border trespassing.
The Rest @ MISNA
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Battle in Democratic Republic of Congo
Up to 600 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in fighting between the army and a former presidential candidate's forces, European Union ambassadors say.
Fighting erupted on Thursday after troops loyal to Jean-Pierre Bemba refused an order to disarm under a plan to cut his security detail to 12 police officers.
More from Al Jazeera
Fighting erupted on Thursday after troops loyal to Jean-Pierre Bemba refused an order to disarm under a plan to cut his security detail to 12 police officers.
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