Rwandan rebel leader Leon Mpiranya aka ′′ Kagoma ′′ killed in Rutshuru

Like I got some bits of information about three days ago,it is now confirmed as FARDC (Armed Forces of the DRC) announced the neutralization last weekend of the Rwandan rebel leader of the FDLR / RUD movement (Ralliement for Unity and Democracy).

spokesperson for Operation Sokola 2, Major Ndjike Kaiko, said that self-proclaimed General Leon Mpiranya aka ′′ Kagoma ′′ was killed, on the night from Thursday to Friday, August 28, in the village of Makoka, in Binza group, in the territory of Rutshuru (North-Kivu).

He says that it was following a military operation that targeted this dissenting faction of the FDLR / FOCA and their allies from the Collective of Movements for Change, CMC / NYatura from August 16 to 28

Major Ndjike Kaiko also claims that this high FDLR framework was killed and other fighters from his group captured.

′′ Operations took place in two phases and on two axes. There was the Nyabanira axis and the Kitshanga axis. After obviously the hard fighting between the loyalist forces and these illegal gun holders, the DRC Armed Forces have managed to neutralize General Kagoma who is the manager who replaced, at the head of the FDLR / RUD, Jean Michel Africa who was neutralized a year ago. He in turn, General Kagoma, was neutralized, but also we restored state authority throughout this area, and we collected the weapons, we neutralized a lot of incivic, but also there are those who, following pressure, went to the loyalist army ", he said. 

520 NDC ex-combatants recieve relief food from DRC government's business commissioner.

520 ex-combatants out of the maquis
of the Nduma defense of Congo militia,
NDC wing Bwira received food and
other goods from the commissioner
General in charge of Business
humanitarian organizations within the Government
Provincial of North Kivu, Dr Descartes
Akili-Mali Bamwisho, on Tuesday 1st
September at the transit site of
Rumangabo, north-east of Goma.
This new assistance is
consisting of beans, flour
corn, vegetable oil, sugar
as well as kitchen utensils and
soap. It was received with
satisfaction by beneficiaries who
listened to the voice of reason of the Chief
of the state that of leaving the bush
to join their efforts with those of
other compatriots engaged in the
reconstruction of the country.
- Publicity-
“These are actions that support
the vision of His Excellency Mr.
President of the Republic, Félix-
Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo ”, a
Governor Carly's Envoy justified
Nzanzu for whom this second batch
constitutes proof of support of
the Provincial Executive to initiatives
pacification.
Now is the time to consolidate
peace, the Commissioner General preached
the outstretched hand policy of
Government both national and
provincial to all combatants who
still lagging behind within the
militias for their integration into the
national life.
The few renderings questioned have
expressed their satisfaction for
reception conditions since their
arrival at Rumanbabo before calling
their brothers in arms to follow suit
The footsteps.
“We were well received because
since our arrival the ration
food is permanent ", is
glad a fighter from
Pinga who expressed the wish to see those
who are still in the bush to come
join them in order to integrate either
the regular army or civilian life depending on
the ACP.
Note that the number of renderings
is growing in Rumangabo where a
second wave was very
recently. All renderings as well as
their dependents come from the axis
Mweso-Kalembe-Pinga.

Nearly $ 800000 to finance armed groups intercepted by police at the Kasindi border station

Like i did a post on this on monday,i have been digging much to get full info about this money nearing $ 800.000 to finance armed groups
intercepted by police at the Kasindi station
September 1, 2020
Police at the border of Kasindi have intercepted,
since August 9, 2020, a package containing at
least 800000 US dollars, intended for rebels
active in the Beni region, confirmed Monday,
August 31 by local civil society as well
as government delegate based in Kasindi.
According to these two sources, the offender
caught in the bag, claimed that the money came
from Nairobi, Kenya and should be used as
logistical support to the rebels in the Beni region
who are logistically stripped following the high
pressure of the FARDC.
′′ This is a file that exists. Kasindi is a small
town, when a new one like this is circulating well
it's almost the whole city that is informed of it.
And so we have the DCF officer for example,
there are also some customs officers who know,
the person carrying this money had revealed that
this money was intended for funding an armed
group without being able to quote the name of
this group ", said Prosper Kalengya, Vice
President of Kasindi Civil Society.
Joint by Act30 cd, Kasindi's delegate official,
Kambale Sivavuyirwa Barthélémy has clarified
that some members of the local security
committee have already been arrested and are
currently being before the Congolese justice of
the region in order to inform about the crossing
of this sum.
The local authority has called the population to
calm while awaiting further investigations
opened by the competent authorities in Beni to
learn more about the file.
As a reminder, civil society actors in the Beni
region have always alerted the funding of armed
groups including ADF rebels with funds from
outside to supple the logistics of these rebels.

This is what the gorvenors of north kivu,south kivu and ituri want from President Tshisekede

Governors in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri
have been welcomed by President Félix
Tshisekedi. Excessed by the resurgence of
violence in the East of the country, they came to
Kinshasa to seek government assistance. They
wish for greater government involvement in
fighting insecurity. A few weeks ago, several
citizen movements in the eastern part of the
country launched a petition to remind the head
of state of his campaign promise: bring peace
back to the east of the country.
Governors from the three provinces met with
President Tshisekedi twice. The last meeting on
Monday even lasted five hours in the presence of
several ministers and focused on the thorny
security issue.
According to several sources, Governors have
obtained from Kinshasa that certain road axes be
rehabilitated, not only to fight insecurity, but also
to promote economic activity.
They would have also obtained government
speed up the process of retrocession by 40 % of
national income to the provinces as provided for
in the Constitution. Some provinces such as
South Kivu accuse up to nine months of arrears.
World Bank officials, Monusco and other
development partners have also been involved in
trade.
New offensives are also planned against several
armed movements, especially in South Kivu.
In a communication from the presidency on
Monday, the Head of State reaffirmed his resolve
to bring peace back to that part of the country.
Dry cuts in budgets
After Eastern Governors, it is the collective of
MPPs who, in turn, wishes to meet with
President Tshisekedi to talk about the difficulties
faced by provincial institutions. Like their
executive colleagues, they want to advocate for
withholding the retrocession of 40 % of national
income dedicated to provinces and other
decentralized bodies. Because today, despite the
promises, delays are increasing, no investments,
low operating budget and unpaid salaries.
Even in light of the latest figures from the
Ministry of Budget, provincial institutions are
right to complain. Apart from Kinshasa, the
capital, North Ubangi and Ecuador, at the end of
July, the other 23 provinces had still not seen
anything from the central government for the
investments planned in the 2020. budget. It must
be said that barely adopted, This budget had
been divided almost by two and the investment
budget of almost half of the provinces had
already been sacrificed on that occasion.
But after more than six months of execution, the
cuts are even tougher. As of July 31, central
government had contributed $ 45 million less
than expected. Cut-ups are also felt in operating
budgets. Only remuneration, mandatory spending,
is officially paid, still according to the Ministry of
Budget.
But Governors complain about several months of
retrocession arrears and say they struggle to turn
their services around. MPPs say they are about
to register their ninth month of unpaid salaries
again, as the government pledged to start
purging these arrears.
This drastic reduction in income transfers
allocated to the provinces is all the more
weighing on those with no own resources. This is
why the collective of provincial deputies is also
advocating for the effective implementation of
the National Equalization Fund. This fund
provided for by the 2006 Constitution was
supposed to balance the income distribution
between rich provinces and poor provinces of
the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Where COVID19 started?Student's in Chinese Wuhan started school today after 7 month of COVID19 Lockdown

Students in China’s Wuhan, the original
epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic,
returned to class on September 1 as the city
reopened all of its schools following a
seven-month shutdown.
Nearly 1.4 million students resumed classes
in around 2,800 kindergartens, primary
schools and middle schools in the city. High
schools were reopened in May, according to
AFP.
State media broadcast images
of students hoisting the
Chinese flag, a daily routine in
schools across the country.
Despite the reopening of schools, however,
officials are remaining vigilant and have
devised online teaching plans in the event of
potential COVID-19 outbreaks.
In addition, students have
been advised to wear masks
while traveling to and from
school and avoid public
transportation if possible.
Drills and training sessions to
prepare students for new
outbreaks will also be
conducted at schools.
Shanghai reopened schools in May, while the
country’s capital city of Beijing, which
experienced a resurgence of COVID-19
cases in late June, will reopen all of its
schools this month. In Beijing, teachers and
students will also be required to wear masks
on school property.
Wuhan was responsible for
around 80% of China’s more
than 4,600 COVID-19 deaths,
according to AFP.
The city was under lockdown for more than
two months starting in late January. The
restrictions were lifted in April, and no new
local transmissions of the virus have been
reported in the city since May 18, according
to Reuters.

Email accounts of various Norwegian members of parliament have been hacked!!!!!!

According to the director of the Storting,
different amounts of data have been
downloaded. Those directly affected have
been contacted, and in the following days
the parliament's administration will follow
up.
The Storting, Norway's parliament, has been
subject to a massive cyberattack resulting in
the hacking of the email accounts of several
parliamentary representatives and
employees, the head of the legislative body
said in a statement on Tuesday.
"We take the matter very
seriously, and we have the full
attention of analysing the
situation to get an overall
picture of the incident and the
potential extent of damage",
Marianne Andreassen, the
head of the parliament, said in
a press release.
Andreassen added that a series of
immediate risk-reducing measures were
successfully implemented to stop the attack.
She further stated that the Storting
administration has close contact with
relevant security authorities, and decided on
Tuesday to report the matter to the police.

The 3201st FARDC regiment recovered 700 ammunitions of an AK-47 in their operations against FPIC militiamen

The 3201st FARDC regiment which took over
on the night of Monday to Tuesday, September
1, 2020 the town of Murubia located 8 km from
Walu, in Irumu territory, recovered more than
700 ammunition from the AK-47 weapon to the
outcome of the excavation operations. The
spokesperson for the army in Ituri, Lieutenant
Jules Ngongo, affirms that this village was
considered as a base of the FPIC militia often
called "Chini ya Kilima" active in the region and
that it came under the control of the regular
army after heavy fighting. The armed forces
pursue the enemy to its last entrenchment,
confirms Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, with the aim
of "cutting off the supply lines of the militia". which took over
on the night of Monday to Tuesday, September
1, 2020 the town of Murubia located 8 km from
Walu, in Irumu territory, recovered more than
700 ammunition of  AK-47 weapon as a result of the
outcome of the excavation operations. The
spokesperson for the army in Ituri, Lieutenant
Jules Ngongo, affirms that this village was
considered as a base of the FPIC militia often
called "Chini ya Kilima" active in the region and
that it came under the control of the regular
army after heavy fighting. The armed forces
pursue the enemy to its last entrenchment,
confirms Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, with the aim
of "cutting off the supply lines of the militia".

The commission of inquiry into the mysterious death of the head of military intelligence, General Delphin Kahimbi, published its findings on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 in Kinshasa

The commission of inquiry into the mysterious
death of the head of military intelligence,
General Delphin Kahimbi, published its findings
on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 in Kinshasa, to
Chief of Staff Célestin Mbala during a
ceremony  of the FARDC, in
the commune of Ngaliema. In a press release
dated August 06, 2020, the Bill Clinton Peace
Foundation (FBCP) expressed concern about
the growing insecurity in General Delphin
Kahimbi's family. - Publicity- According to the
same press release, relatives of General
Kahimbi would be detained and face threats.
First, 23-year-old nephew Olivier Makita, who
was arrested on June 23, 2020 and detained at
the ANR. He would be involved in the death of
his uncle. Then there is her pastor Jérémie
Kumuinuana, 38 years old, arrested on July 03,
2020, on the grounds that Ms. Nkoy's number
was on her phone. Delphin Kahimbi was found
dead at his home on Friday February 28, 2020.
Major General Marcel Mbangu had been
appointed by the Chief of the General Staff of
the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic
of Congo (FARDC), General Célestin Mbala
Munsense, to head the commission of inquiry
charged with elucidating the circumstances of
General Kahimbi's death. His widow Brenda
Nkoy Okale was summoned by the Commission
of Inquiry as part of the hearings to clarify the
circumstances of the highly suspicious death
of General Delphin Kahimbi.

India and Russia deploy warships in indian ocean....straight of malacca

India and Russia have lined up a series of bilateral engagements over the next 10 days, including the visit of Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh to Moscow later this week. The talks will also touch on the issue of the early delivery of the S-400, quick reaction missile system; officials in New Delhi said.
India has deployed destroyers, frigates and corvettes to carry out a naval exercise near the strategically-located Strait of Malacca later this week. A government official in New Delhi said that the INDRA NAVY–2020 exercise will take place on 4-5 September, during which Russian Navy ships will sail from Hambantota in Sri Lanka to the Malacca Straits in the Bay of Bengal.
“Indian Navy will deploy ships Ranvijay (Destroyer), Sahyadri (Frigate), Kiltan (Corvette) and Shakti (Tanker) with integrated helicopters,” Indian government official said while adding that the exercise is being carried out as “non-contact, at sea only” passage exercise during the pandemic.
India-Russia (INDRA) Exercises between the Army, Navy and Air Force of the two countries have been held since 2005.
Later this week, Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh will also visit Russia to discuss military co-operation between the two “special and privileged strategic partners”.
— रक्षा मंत्री कार्यालय/ RMO India (@DefenceMinIndia) September 1, 2020
— Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka (@RusEmbSriLanka) September 1, 2020
“The Indian Air Force and Army are pressing for early delivery of missile systems, which include the S-400 air defence system. The issue will come up once again during the visit,”
Later on September 10, India’s Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar will meet his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow.
Last week, Maria Vorobyova, the official representative of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia told media on the sidelines of the Army-2020 International Military and Technical Forum that the delivery of the first regiment of S-400 is expected by the end of 2021 .
“Further acceleration of the delivery of the first batch from the system is technically impossible, since there are objective, technology-related stages of production, acceptance and transfer of equipment,” Vorobyova emphasised.

Russian SU57 figher jet to get an invisiblity cloak.

Since mass production of the Sukhoi Su-57 began last year, developers have announced a number of add-ons for the fifth-generation fighter, ranging from new hypersonic missiles to plans to allow it to control swarms of drones.
Russia’s Su-57 fighter jets are going to receive special protective cloaks to shield them from bad weather and enemy radar detection while they are on their airfields, with delivery of the cloaks set to begin next year, Izvestia has reported , citing sources in the military and the military industry.
According to the newspaper, the cloaks will be made of radar signal-reflecting polymers, with each plane will receive over a dozen separate, specially-fitted covers for its fuselage, wings, cockpit, stabilisers, air intakes, wheels and other components.
In addition to cloaking the plane, the coverings will protect the planes’ external electronics, including antennae, sensors, radar and optical and electronic systems from the elements.
Lt. Gen. Valery Gorbenko, former commander of the 4th Air Force and Air Defence Army, told Izvestia that the cloaks will deprive the potential adversary of information such as where the planes are based, how many there are, as well as where and from where they have been transferred.
The officer added that the coverings’ protective qualities are a significant bonus. “It is important to protect modern equipment from bad weather. Today planes are sometimes covered up entirely, but this provides little protection from rain or snow. In southern regions, during sandstorms, paint is stripped from planes like emery.”
Sukhoi is currently working on the delivery of 76 Su-57s for the Ministry of Defence, with state testing on the planes delivered earlier set to be completed before the end of the year.
The Sukhoi Su-57, formerly known as the ‘PAK FA’ or T-50, is a supermanoeuvrable fifth-generation strike fighter with stealth characteristics and the latest avionics and weapons systems.
Taking part in combat evaluation in Syria in 2018 and 2019, the fighter jet formally began mass production in 2019. In the meantime, developers are working on a number of upgrades, including true fifth-generation engines and a hypersonic missile designed to be fitted in its weapons bay.

The exact price tag of the Su-57 programme is difficult to pin down. However, Russian business media reported last year that the contract with the MoD for the batch of 76 planes has an estimated cost of 170 billion rubles ($2.3 billion US), or about $30.4 million per plane. The plane’s development programme had a cost of about 60 billion 2010 rubles (about $2.8 billion).
These numbers compare favourably with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightening II, which has a programme cost of $428.5 billion, and a gargantuan $1.19 trillion operations and sustainment cost through 2077, as well as a per plane price tag of $77.9 million for the F-35A, $94.4 million for the F-35C, and $101.3 million for the F-35B.