The President of the Democratized Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, cancels his visit to Goma on Tuesday September 22, 2020 due to an agenda issue, according to reliable sources

This news comes as the mobilizations were already intensifying in the capital of the province of North Kivu for its warm welcome.

Beyond the posters placed along the main roads and roundabouts, several structures were firmly awaiting the arrival in Goma of the Head of State.

This is the case of the customary chiefs of North Kivu gathered in the National Alliance of Traditional Authorities of Congo, who had already welcomed and encouraged the Head of State's decision to continue his visit to Goma.

For these customary chiefs, the arrival of Félix Tshisekedi was a sigh of relief for the people of Goma, in particular, and North Kivu, in general.

For their part, the elected national deputies of North Kivu expressed their determination to meet the President of the Republic in order to explain to him the situation facing the population of North Kivu, said Sengoma Mwanza, chairman of the Caucus of elected national deputies. of North Kivu.

In addition, Vital Kamerhe's Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC), contrary to the statements of certain executives, was preparing to welcome, alongside its ally of Cap pour le changer (CACH), the Union for Democracy and social progress (UDPS), the moral authority of their platform.

The arrival of the Head of State seemed to have already been confirmed by some executives. They are, among others, Jeacquemain Shabani, former secretary of the Udps and current chairman of the permanent electoral commission of the party who is staying in Goma.

KGB Spetsnaz seek to re-employ Soviet Spymaster’s Unique Methods Against Western Counterintelligence

 Last Saturday marked the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Drozdov, the KGB major-general in charge of planting illegal Soviet agents in countries across the West.

The KGB’s illegals programme was often able to outplay its opponents in western counterintelligence thanks to the non-conventional tactics employed by the man running it - Directorate ‘C’ chief Yuri Drozdov, says Valery Popov, one of Drozdov’s protégés.

Speaking  on the anniversary of the superspy’s birth, Popov, a veteran of the KGB special forces unit Vympel, which Drozdov created in 1981, said that his mentor was a “brilliant” operative with a penchant for enigmatic, out of the box thinking.

According to Popov, this was amply demonstrated with the case of Alexei Kozlov, the Soviet spy arrested in Apartheid South Africa in 1981 while gathering intelligence about the country’s illegal nuclear weapons programme.

“Kozlov was arrested in the early 1980s, put on death row in a South African prison, and tortured. But he survived, was exchanged for several western intelligence officers, and returned to his homeland,” Popov recalled.

After some time passed, Kozlov asked his superiors to send him abroad again. “In the end, Drozdov agreed. This was a genius decision. He understood that operational work was Kozlov’s whole life. He calculated that no one would believe that an illegal agent who had been uncovered and who was known by sight could ever be sent abroad again. Seems illogical, right? And it worked!” Popov said.

Kozlov was sent abroad in 1986, where he remained until 1997. His activities and place of residence during this period remains unknown to this day. It was thanks to Kozlov’s work that the USSR discovered that Apartheid South Africa carried out a nuclear test in 1979 together with Israel, and learned that the country was producing enriched uranium in occupied Namibia. These findings made it possible for Moscow to persuade the United States and multiple Western European countries to strengthen international sanctions against South Africa, with the restrictions ultimately helping to topple the Apartheid regime in 1994.

According to Popov, intelligence work is often compared with chess, but is really more complex. “I think the chess comparison is an inaccurate one, because chess is limited by the board, and all of the pieces have strict rules when it comes to how they can be moved. In intelligence work, there is no board or rules for the 'pieces'…Drozdov played real life, operational chess, which was unpredictable for the opponent.”

Popov suggested that “Drozdov’s genius also lay in the fact that he knew how to put together different people – different nationalities, different temperaments, with different training, including physically and linguistically. And depending on the mission handed down by command, it was possible to assemble the group to carry it out quickly, to defeat the enemy in operational chess using unusual moves.”, who currently serves as president of the Association of Vympel Veterans, says the KGB special forces unit is comparable with “a scalpel in the hands of a skilled neurosurgeon,” with its missions not limited to combat operations, but also including the ability to work "in the dark", infiltrating the mission area, carrying out the mission, and leaving without a trace, without the use of weapons if possible.

During the Soviet crisis of August 1991, Vympel was mobilised to storm the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin and his aides were holed up in resistance to Communist hardliners’ efforts to unseat Mikhail Gorbachev. However, the order to carry out the operation never came through, and after the crisis was over, the Communist Party was banned and the KGB, military and other security agencies were reorganized and purged. Drozdov was retired two months earlier, in June 1991.

He died in 2017, would have turned 95 on Saturday. A veteran of the Second World War who took part in the storming of Berlin in the spring of 1945, the KGB officer headed the Soviet illegals program between 1979 and 1991, and is believed to have helped plant hundreds of "illegal" agents in western countries in that time. 

Before heading the illegals department, Drozdov repeatedly worked in the field as an illegal agent himself, using his excellent command of German to pretend to be the cousin of Soviet agent Rudolf Abel during the operation to bring him to the Soviet Union in 1962, and infiltrating a group of Nazi sympathizers in the West German government while posing as a former SS officer. In the 1960s, he also served as a KGB resident in China, and in the United States.

The fate of the Goma summit as Shaban Jacquemain Lukoo organises people to Receive president Tshisekede this Tuesday.

 

The mini-summit in Goma, North Kivu, has just been sent off sine die by Kinshasa, after the polite refusal of the Rwandan authorities, talking about health reasons. Indeed, in a press release dated September 18th, Congolese Foreign Minister Marie Tumba Nzeza decided to postpone this meeting to be held on September 20th to a later date. place in North Kivu province, mentioning ′′ reasons for the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic ". The postponement of the mini-summit follows the wish of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Rwanda ′′ to prefer a mini summit via videoconference on a date to be agreed by the parties concerned given the current situation of Covid-19 ". For Kigali, ′′ a physical encounter could be considered early in 2021 ", according to a note dated September 17th. Kigali's wish has all a polite refusal, as coronavirus disease mentioned as reason to postpone the meeting to another date didn't happen yesterday!

This diplomatic refusal by Kigali, had just annihilated all Kinshasa's hopes after Bujumbura's no less ′′ polite ′′ Cold shower, the capital for the capital of North Kivu who had already betrayed itself with its most beautiful attours to welcome its branded hosts. Five heads of state!

Goma could be content - comforting himself! - from President Tshisekedi's visit expected this Tuesday.Staying in the city of Goma, capital of North Kivu province, Jacquemin Shabani Lukoo, Chairman of the Permanent Electoral Commission (CEP) of the presidential party, Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), mobilizes the population for the reception of the head of state in this city, scheduled for arrival on Tuesday, September 22

In an interview given on Sunday, September 20, 2020, Jacquemin Shabani reported that Felix Tshisekedi is coming to Goma, including to communicate with the people of North Kivu and assess the instructions given to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of the of restoring peace in the region.

′′ It was important that we came here as a team ahead, because we campaigned with the head of state and promised this people in long-term deadly Kivu, peace and security. Since then, the president has been working hard on it. This is how he expressed the willingness to hold a mini summit which will finally be held via videoconference. So it was important to come talk with our brothers and sisters in North Kivu to raise awareness on this issue and remind them that we are working on it ", he said.

And add: ′′ The head of state will therefore be here this Tuesday to give a finger to all these realities and assess the progress of various instructions he gave in the framework of peacemaking It will also have meetings with civil society organizations, community leaders and other social strata ".

It should be pointed out that 5 heads of state were expected in Goma for a mini summit on development, security and cooperation. Headquarters will finally be held via video conferencing on a soon to be fixed date, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

ADF kills atleast 10 People in the sector of BENI-MBAU

 Atleast ten (10) people died in a new attack blamed on the rebels of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the sector of Beni-Mbau, on the national road n ° 4 (which leads to Kisangani) , the night from Sunday to Monday, September 21, 2020. The attackers also took several other civilians hostage. They operated particularly in Kitoho and Vuppiri.This attacks comes after in Kisangani city,they were dead bodies discovered showing insticts of the same way ADF kills,many people in Kisangani are anticipating ADF having even infiltrated Kisangani.

The still provisional assessment drawn up at 7SUR7.CD by the administrator of the territory of Beni, Donat Kibwana, however, reports 10 civilians killed. They are, according to him, 6 men and 4 women.

"We are worried on Monday. The rebels have raided this part after deviating from the positions of FARDC elements. They killed our civilians with guns and machetes and took several others hostage, including the leader. of the village, ”he added.

The information is also confirmed by the local civil society which, for its part, draws up a toll of 11 dead during the rebel incursion.

"There are 11 people killed including 10 civilians, several others missing. 4 houses set on fire and several pets taken," said Esdras Mathe, president of the youth in the Beni-Mbau sector.

A survivor of this tragedy further explains that the attackers were made up of men, women and children. He claims to have seen his parents slaughtered by the rebels.

"It is thanks to God that I saved myself from the hands of the rebels. They killed all the people they had just taken hostage in our plot where they set fire to 4 houses with all the goods that were there" , he said.

However, other sources approached on the spot said they saw rebels a few meters from the scene of the crime in the early hours of Monday preparing food in a valley near Vupiri.

It should also be noted that faced with these new killings, all socio-economic activities are paralyzed in the Beni-Mbau sector. On the spot, some residents go to other supposedly secure these communities.

President Tshisekede will be in Goma this week!

 Felix Tshisekedi will this week be in Goma (North Kivu). The advance team is already on hand and preparations are going well. However,President Félix Tshilombo's advance team en route to Goma City experienced a technical problem flying with the plane on Sunday afternoon, the B727 scheduled to travel to Goma had a technical problem 30 minutes after the take off and and the pilot brought the aircraft back to the ground with no damage. the figures already in the tourism capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are Jacquemain Shabani, UDPS Chairman of the Permanent Electoral Commission (CEP).

′′ I am one of the UDPS leaders. I am here as part of reviving our party's activities. I have come to bring a message of hope to the deadly people of North Kivu, especially on the efforts of the Head of State for the return of peace in that part of the country. We should also as North Kivu people mobilize to reserve a dignified welcome to the Head of State. Unless last minute change, the head of state will be here in Goma early next week ", said Jacquemain Shabani on Sunday

′′ The President of the Republic is free to visit all corners of the country on his agenda. As you know, the Head of State has returned peace in this part his battle horse. He comes to comfort the murdered people in the East and himself assess the level of implementation of instructions given to our defence forces fighting day and night against the armed groups that are scoffing this part of the country.

As a  message of hope but also of comfort, the government is doing its best under the leadership of the Head of State to eradicate all the armed groups that sow death in the Kivu region and Ituri.

The militiamen of the rebel coalition known as "Republic of Kivu" are accused of insecurity and ransom the population of Irambi-Katana

 The militiamen of the rebel coalition known as "Republic of Kivu" are accused of insecurity and ransom the population of Irambi-Katana, a group located around the Kahuzi Biega National Park, in the territory of Kabare (South Kivu).

 

Thaddée Miderho, administrator of the Kabare territory explains that they are two armed groups, one led by the warlord Nshokano and the other by a certain Soleil, close to the self-proclaimed general Chance Mihonya (who is currently in prison).

"These two armed groups operate in the sub-village of Cirehe and in the village of Mabingu in the Irambi-Katana groupement. Hutus have been reported among their elements, some are said to have spears and others to have weapons. for the moment is that the degree of nuisance is expressed. To go to the fields, these rebels force the peasants a sum of 500 Congolese francs and they beat those who do not have this sum ", he explained to on Saturday September 19, 2020.

The administrator of the territory of Kabare informs that he has already informed the officials of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and believes that an operation will soon be carried out to track down these rebels.

Meanwhile, Hubert Mulongoy, communication officer for Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) reports that these rebels are also engaged in the exploitation of minerals in the Naweza river.

It should be remembered that the formation of this new rebellion comes 3 days after the signing of a commitment by nearly 70 armed groups to cease hostilities in the province of South Kivu.

The pressure exerted in recent days by the FARDC against the foreign terrorists ADF and all the negative forces in the operation "rescue of Mayangose" has reduced the activism of the terrorists

 

The pressure exerted in recent days by the FARDC against the foreign terrorists ADF and all the negative forces in the operation "rescue of Mayangose" has reduced the activism of the terrorists

ADF / MTM, the Congolese government reported on Friday September 18th during the 49th Council of Ministers.

In the point of the security situation, the Minister of National Defense stressed that the security situation was generally calm throughout the territory apart from some pockets of insecurity, mainly in the East of the country.

According to the minister, loyalist forces are continuing with success the operations carried out in this part against the foreign and national armed groups which disturb the peace of the population.

In North Kivu, apart from operations against the ADF, we nevertheless noted a surrender of 14 Mai-Mai militiamen from the NDC / R armed group of Bwira Gilbert.

In Beni, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces on Friday closed a mission to inspect and assess ongoing operations against ADF terrorists. The region of Mayangose ​​and the Mbau-kamango highway are under FARDC control after armed clashes reported for more than a month.

However, ADF activism has declined in this part. These rebels took over a locality in Ituri last week, killing more or less 58 people in Tshabi.

48th council of ministers in Kinshasha reported the incursions of South Sudanese army in Djugu,they also made reports on ADF

 According to the minutes of the 48th weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Friday, September 18, 2020 by videoconference, incursions by elements of the South Sudan Army into the chiefdoms of Kaliko-Omi and Kakwa were reported, in the territory of Djugu.

In addition, the Minister of National Defense underlined the joint PNC / FARDC patrols in large towns and on National Road No. 1 continue.

In addition, Aimé Ngoy Mukena pointed out the bravery of the population in the territory of Kongolo, (Espace Grand Katanga) who arrested a Mai-Mai activist Malaika.

The minister also informed members of the government of the pressure exerted in recent days by the FARDC against the ADF terrorists and all the negative forces in the operation "Rescue of Mayangose", reduced the activism of the ADF / MTM terrorists.

According to the same source, the FARDC continue to record the surrenders of combatants from the armed group NDC / R.

The Minister of Defense has, moreover, the activism of some members of CODECO in the territory of Djugu. Part of the reason, he says, is the lack of full "Render" support.

"It is the same in Irumu territory, where FRPI militiamen in the process of disarmament and demobilization are leaving their pre-cantonment sites and may represent a danger", we read in the report of the Council of Ministers signed by government spokesperson David-Jolino Makelele.

In addition, the Minister of Defense reassured that instructions had been given so that the situation of candidates for demobilization and disarmament be dealt with urgently.

Indian Army receive the upgraded T-72M1 Ajaya Mk2

 

Indian Army receive the upgraded T-72M1 Ajaya Mk-2. CI-Ajeya (Combat Improved Ajeya) tank is the modernized version of T-72. The tank capability was enhanced with Global Positioning System (GPS), Next generation Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) Mk-II, new 1000 HP engine and Integrated Fire Detection and Suppression System (IFDSS) to the level of contemporary combat vehicles. The upgradation of the tank is being done by HVF, based on CVRDE design and issued to the Army for use.

 This T-72M1 has better ERA cover & mobility compare to T-90S Bhishma.

Any Nigerian who remembers this??? Nigerian special forces in Belurus in 2014