Days of mourning in Beni city after massacres by ADF

The strong forces of the Bambuka-kisiki group, in the territory of Beni (North Kivu), have just commenced secrete a series of days of mourning this Saturday, May 22, 2020.
The decision is following the rise of growing insecurity in this part of Beni territory, characterized by attacks by the ADF rebels in the country.
Congratulations Muhindo Vukulu, president of the forces in this part, says that these days will be an opportunity for the population to bury all the last victims of the barbarism last week.
He calls on the whole population to respect this measure to foster and honor the memories of the famous missing.
" From this Saturday we will celebrate a series of days of mourning, that is all the work is stopped in Eringeti, May-moya, Kokola, samboko-Tchanichani, and in the rest of the Bambuba-Kisiki group. This series will continue on Sunday so we can bury our brothers recently killed by ADF rebels. You know we are recording dead and even around the middle that proves that the enemy is surrounding us." told Laprunelle DRC Info, Bravo Muhindo Vukulu, before remembering that they also sent a letter to the different security authorities, including the territory admin and the military authorities.
In this letter, the strong forces call on the authorities to go to Eringeti to find out about the situation.
Bravo Muhindo Vukulu, says that during this meeting, civil society will be able to present the security plan of this party as it was done at the front with the former provincial governor and even former Operation Commander Good 1.

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DRC has become a country without borders and may again transform into a battlefield of various armies!

Security remains a major challenge for President Félix Tshisekedi tshilombo. A year and a half after its inauguration, territorial integrity and, in turn, the sovereignty of the country are at risk. For reason, some neighbours are taking advantage of the disorganization of its power to make unwanted incursions into Congolese soil.
As if nothing happened, the the president seems more concerned about the management of his alliance with his predecessor Joseph Kabila than the country's management. A summary of the attacks carried out by foreign armed forces in the DRC since last January.
National MPs have asked several questions to the Minister of National Defence and former fighters, Aimé Ngoy I, including the allegations of foreign army incursions into Congolese territory. " In comparison to the Rwandan foray reported in North Kivu, the Minister said he does not have enough evidence to confirm this said National MP Juvenal Munubo, member of the defence and security committee at the assembly national of the DRC.
According to MP Juvenal Munubo, during the commemoration of the Rwandan genocide there were movements of troops from Rwanda to the common border and the minister announced the deployment of experts to check this out.On 13 April 2020, Rwandan military attacked the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) in the villages of Marangara, Kanyeru and Kazaroho in of territory in North Kivu province. The information had been delivered by the Kivu Security Barometer in its monthly report. It had been denied by the Rwandan army but several sources confirmed it and said that during this clash, 105 houses were burned.
Nine days later, 17 people, including 12 Congolese Rangers, were killed in an ambush near Virunga Park HQ near Goma, North Kivu province. While the management of the park and Congolese security officials accused the FDLR-FOCA armed group "of being the author of this killing", the latter denied and rejected responsibility on the rwandan army.
On April 2020, 24, the civil society of the territory of Lukula announced the foray of more than a hundred army army soldiers into this part of the province of Kongo Central. Angolan soldiers reportedly justify their foray into Congolese territory to chase rebels from the Liberation Front of Cabinda enclave (FLEC), who would have their base in the DRC.
The Chief army still occupied Congolese communities
No longer than Wednesday, 20 May 2020, National MP Geneviève Inagosi Kasongo denounced the operations of the Central African army in Congolese territory to track down their rebels. complained to the Congolese authorities to allow regular troops from other countries to hunt down their rebels on Congolese soil, she sent a question to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Security and Customary Affairs, Gilbert Kankonde.
" Our country is not a battlefield. If there is a fire power problem, at least use the diplomatic route because it is the neighbours we are required to live safely with ", said Geneviève Inagosi, after saying that " he There is the regular Central African army entering our country ".
Meanwhile, the Chief army still occupied Congolese communities in the provinces of Tanganyika and Haut-Katanga in the indifference of the Central Government, which does not consider a military option to remove it.
According to the minutes of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of 15 May 2020, " the armed forces of the DRC are on alert " and that " strong diplomatic contacts are privileged for the resolution of this dispute ".
Comment by an expert in geostrategic relations and international relations: "The DRC has become a country without borders since the inauguration of Félix Tshisekedi to the supreme judicial".
According to Juvenal Munubo, a member of Defense and Security Committee of the National Assembly of the DRC, the minister should respond on different sources of tension. Loved Ngoyi I promised to answer the different questions asked him by the national MPs.
" We did an in-depth review in a kind of constructive dialogue as recognized by the Minister himself, on several tensions in different provinces. We have identified Haut-Katanga, North Kivu, South-kivu, Ituri, Haut Uelé and Tanganyika. We talked about the issues of foreign and local armed groups said National MP, Juvenal Munubo.This, despite the fact that the current head of state has wasted millions of dollars last year for diplomatic trips that obviously did not bear the expected fruits.

military invasion in Tanganyika: civil society is unhappy of FARDC silence ,

The presence of the Zambian military in Congolese territory is increasingly worrying citizens near the border with the territory.
Today 22/05/2020,Some elements of the Zambian army have been deployed still in the areas already occupied. These military people have settled in three other villages.
According to Tanganyika civil society, people have no support. A situation that caused some people to take refuge in the forest.
" Yes, there are enough Congolese military, but they always say they are waiting for the word of order, they are waiting for negotiations and in the meantime it is the population who suffers [...]. The situation is catastrophic and you know we already are experiencing the flood situation ", said a member of civil society contacted

Volatile situation in the DRC: National Defense Minister audition by the National Assembly's Defense and Security Committee 22/05/2020

The National Assembly is waiting to act within the limits of its prerogatives to propose ways of exit to the great security discomfort in several provinces of the country.
To do this, the Defense and Security Committee gets the necessary information from the Minister of Defense before offering effective actions to the government.
This exchange concerns the volatile situation in Upper Katanga in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri as well as in the provinces of Haut-Uélé and Tanganyika. The CODECO in Ituri goes after the harmless civilians killing hundreds of deaths, in the province of Tanganyika, the Zambian troops operate illegally in Congolese territory.
In Lubumbashi, urban crime has risen a notch. The proposals must be strong in such a way as to give Congolese security forces new strategies to end the ordeal imposed on Congolese citizens by armed groups:
" Hearing of the Minister of National Defence on: " The situation of insecurity and tensions in the provinces of Upper Katanga, North and South Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Uele and Tanganyika ". Proposals for action more effective @FARDC_ ' says Patrick Muyaya National Member of the Defense and Security Committee.
It should be noted that the same committee heard Wednesday the Minister of the Interior on the same issue.

Joseph kony's LRA is surfaces in systematic looting and kidnapping more than 50 people in Bondo .

At least fifty-five (55) people were victims of a Kidnapping during the multiple assaults of the Lord's Armed Forces Lord's resistance army, between 18 and 19 May, in the communities  of Baye, in the territory of Bondo in the province of Lower Uelé.
According to consistent sources mentioned by Radio Okapi, among the abducted persons include 20 women and 3 children.
In their assaults, rebels identified in the LRA group of Joseph Kony have systematically looted the property of the peaceful population, including food, cattle and others.
Contact, the local leader of Bili is in line with the news at UN Radio and calls for the strengthening of military teams.
" In the village of Baye, for example, as a Gulumbe group, the elements of the LRA killed a motorcycle-taxi driver and took his motorcycle away." he regrets.
However, Valentin Senga, governor of the province of Lower Uelé, says 5 people out of the hostages have already been released.
The boss of the lower-Uelé executive still calls on the central government to pay attention to this border part with the Central African Republic in order to ensure the security of its court.
Almost two years later, the LRA, an armed movement of rebel leader Joseph Kony, surfaced in this part of the DRC.
This Ugandan Rebels has been the perpetrators of several barbaric abuses in the Lower Uelé.

Self-proclaimed General Major Maheshe Simba Wa Nkutu, rebel leader of the Mai-Mai Mulangane forces for the defense of the people (FMMDP) handed 20weapons and hundreds of his soldiers to DRC government Wednesday, May 2020, 20 in the territory of Kabare in South Kivu.

In the presence of the provincial and custom authorities, he went with a hundred of his men and handed over 20 weapons and several ammunition.
According to local civil society, this rebel leader who was living in ore mining areas in Bunyakiri, Mulambula and in the plain of the Ruzizi, justifies his surrender by the concern of peace.
Self-proclaimed General Major Maheshe Simba says that he has decided to leave the bush in order to answer the call of the head of state Félix Tshisekedi.
" We dropped the weapons to choose the path of peace and respond to the call of the head of state. We call on other rebel groups to drop the weapons ", he said.
Lwabanji Lwasingabo, provincial minister in charge of interior and security, who participated in this surrender ceremony, confirms this information and says that the rebels who surrender choose the path to peace.
He says that the report of this surrender will be sent to the provincial governor before this rebel leader's next arrival in Bukavu.
It should be remembered that more than 30 Raiya Mutomboki also visited the territory headquaters of Kalehe in South Kivu in bid to drop down their weapons.

A citizen movement activist Lucha has been killed by police this Thursday, May 21 in Beni (North Kivu) during a protest against insecurity.

The fact happened in Kalinda neighborhood, in the municipality, where law enforcement violently repressed the protest. The victim was shot in the head.
About twenty militants are arrested by the police.
According to a standing report now,Economic activities are paralysed within beni town. The day before, Lucha called on the population to observe a dead city day this Thursday to address the re-emergence of insecurity in the city. This was after the killing of a civilians by armed men in the Butsili neighborhood, in the same commune Mulekera.
Meanwhile, in the territory of Beni also the attacks of the ADF fighters are increasing. There are at least 34 people killed last week during incursions around the city of Oicha.

Russia's state intermediary agency for defence exports, Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec Corporation), said on Thursday it was ready to sell abroad a new radar locator, capable of detecting hypersonic targets.

Russia's state intermediary agency for defence exports, Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec Corporation), said today,Thursday 21/05/2020 that it was ready to sell abroad a new radar locator, capable of detecting hypersonic targets.
"Today, Rosoboronexport launches to the [international] market a new radar locator, capable of efficiently detecting a wide range of modern and prospective air targets, including hypersonic targets," Rosoboronexport Director General Alexander Mikheev said, as quoted by his press service.
Mikheev expressed the belief that the radar locator would be in demand in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and North Africa.
Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport showcased its newest radar, which can easily detect a wide range of aerial objects, including hypersonic Targets
Last week, President Donald Trump announced that the US is developing a state-of-the-art hypersonic missile that he stressed should be superior to those currently created by Russia and China.
Earlier, the US administration requested at least $3.2 billion in funding for hypersonic weapons development programmes in the next fiscal year, an increase of almost $500 million from 2020.
This came as the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) Treaty in August 2019 after formally suspending its INF obligations in February that year and triggering a six-month withdrawal process.

Eastern DRC's security still in a danger especially in KIVU and ITURI

On the security level, the DRC is still in a tragic situation. As we have been monitoring new tensions DRC has with Zambia at the common border level,the confusion in minembwe, various chaos in the Kivu and ITURI, it is a confusing security situation in the eastern part of the country.
Indeed, reflecting the fact that though the CSG has been constantly denounced for years, the Congo Study Group through the voice of its Director, researcher Jason Stearns, said he had " received reports from the different  focal points that we have on the ground and our interlocutors in civil society who notified a presence of the Rwandan military ". This presence is a violation of international law and is done with the tactic agreement of Mr. Felix Tshisekedi who seems to have given a white card informally to the Kigali regime to carry out his various projects on Congolese soil. If these recent incursions are in addition to a long list of violations that began in the 1990 s (see report mapping), they must not avoid the issue of Congolese army infiltration. Interviewed by RFI on 17 April 2020, a member of the civil society of North Kivu noted: "They are Rwandans in the night and present themselves as FARDC units the during daylight".
These facts are all the more serious as they take place in the context of increasing tensions between Burundi and Rwanda on one side and Uganda and Rwanda on the other. This is how the DRC is once again at risk of being the theatre of power wars that does not concern it. This fear was shared in a report by the International Crisis Group. It's President, Martin Fayulu, also expressed his fear in a tweet where he says: " The DRC must no longer be the playground of some surrounding countries.
Those who feel threatened must hold talks with their rebels at home. The blood of the Congolese can no longer continue to flow because of imported conflicts. We have the right to peace." On April 24, a deadly attack carried out by foreign elements in Virunga Park confirmed these fears. Until the DRC is led by responsible, legitimately elected patriots who are not bound by opaque and cloudy commitments, there will be no outcome of the security crisis in the eastern part of the country.