President Tshisekede will be in Goma tommorrow

 

Many DRC police officer completed their training on Friday

The esplanade of the General Commissioner of the Congolese National Police served this Friday, October 02, 2020 as a framework for the closure of the first pilot session of the students commissioners finalists of the Police Academy in front of the political and military officials, we have Some of the figures are recognized among many others: Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister, Security and Customary Affairs and his Deputy Minister, Chief of General Staff of FARDC, represented by one of his deputy, Commissioner General of the PNC, Head of the Military House of the Head of State, Former Commissioner General of the PNC, General Bisengimana, MONUSCO Police Commander, Director General of Schools and Training, provincial Commissioner City of Kinshasa, Academy Commander and many more FARDC and PNC General, Superior and Junior Officers. All were in the spotlight with the live broadcast at RTNC.

From the course to the ceremony

Police Academy Commander Principal Higher Commissioner (Colonel) Ambroise LANGA MOKOBA opened the activity with his opening remarks, especially thanks to the President of the Republic, Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and National Police Congolese for his special attention to training within the ¨Police with a view to professionalizing the elements so that the Congolese people have a Republican police, trained, equipped and respectful of human rights to carry out their mission of securing Persons and their properties (...) hence the name baptized for this promotion: ′′ Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo ′′ and urged the Government to expedite the finalization of the facilities to house the Police Academy in Kimpoko in Maluku Municipality ...

As a reminder, the PNC reform support programme initiated by the Government of the former Kabila regime resulted in the construction of a modern Police Academy framework on financial and technical support from the European Union. This Kimpoko installation includes an Administrative Building, 128 bed dorm, classrooms for commissioners and deputy commissioners training, a health center and a guard body.

The PNC Commissioner General also addressed this in his intervention and invited the winners to honor the Police throughout their professional careers.

Presentation of technical sheets

120 students opened the session on May 08, 2017, 102 passed the 2017-2018 session tests and 100 passed the second terminal year and only 97 recipients in total including 14 Women have succeeded in obtaining the diploma of Police Commissioner and commissioned to the rank of Deputy Commissioner (Sub Lieutenant) by Ministerial Order No. 25 / CAB / VPM / MININTERSECAC / 009/2020.

In 24 months of training they have received a total of 82 practical courses to equip the police officer managers and leaders capable of including: ordering a police squadron (cavalry or gendarmerie unit of several platoons); Frame efficiently the OPJs under their authority; find solutions to security concerns in their business island; etc.

To ensure their training, the Academy used trainers qualities including: University Professors; Heads of Works and Assistants of Universities; Magistrates and Lawyers; Senior Officers FARDC and PNC Trainers and Instructors;

The knowledge acquired by the winners has gone into three main axes: General training; Technico-professional training; and Legal training.

From the anthem of the Police Academy

The first promotion called ′′ Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo ′′ had the merit of producing the anthem of the Police Academy which was sung in front of the assist. No need to recall the moving, poignant character that will forever be used to awaken patriotic moose within the body.

From the call to the Government of the Republic

The Director of Schools and Training and the Commissioner General of the Congolese National Police have each urged the Government of the Republic to equip this institution with the police with the logistical and technical means necessary for the operation as well as to finalise the construction and equipment of the Police Academy facilities in Kimpoko in Maluku township and consider expanding this framework in future to contain nearly 400 students instead of a hundred, taking into consideration the country's greatness and expectations of the population.

Police Academy Commandment

The Police Academy is led by the Chief Superior Commissioner (equivalent to Colonel) Ambroise LANGA MOKOBA, A Certified Staff (BEM) at Commanding School in Egypt in Cairo, Former Director of Officer Training School of Judicial Police for 7 years.

According to the regulations in this matter, he should have the rank of Deputy Divisionary Commissioner (General), it is up to the President of the Republic and the Supreme Council of Defence to resolve the matter.

He has been the leader of the Academy since 2015, more than 15 years of activity in the field of training in the DRC since 2004 at ENAP (National Police School) as Commandant.

Reform of the Congolese National Police

The President of the Republic Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo can at least count on competent and experienced people to set up his policy of capacity-building and training within the Congolese National Police to restore the once tarnished image of this state institution ... I

Therefore, should we confess that the task will not be easy for him until the reform process of the Police Reform does not affect the Major Operational Units, Directorates, and PNC Central and Specialty Services area of command because says ′′ there are not bad troops, but bad leaders ", good ones are to be identified among the bad ones and that requires objective non-partisan work, without clientelism or nepotism.

President Tshisekede is expected in Goma on this Monday.

President Tshisekedi Tshilombo is again expected in the city of Goma, capital of the province of North Kivu. He should arrive during the week of October 05 to 10 after the postponement of the last trip planned in this city which was announced on September 22. In the meeting of the Provincial Council of Ministers held on Friday October 02 in Sake in the territory of Masisi, Governor Carly Nzanzu Kasivita informed members of his government that the arrival of the President of the Republic in this tourist city is now "imminent. ". “The provincial governor announced the imminent arrival in the provinces of the President of the Republic, the Head of State, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo. Thus, the entire population is invited to give it a delusional welcome, ”insists the report read by Jean-Bosco Sebishimbo, spokesperson for the provincial government. As a reminder on September 22, the Congolese president postponed his planned trip to this city for lack of an overloaded agenda. A mini-summit of heads of state initiated by Félix Tshisekedi, which should also be held in Goma, had also been postponed.

7 civilians dead in another ADF attack in Beni

 There was throughout the day of Saturday, October 03, 2020, within the population of the locality of Bakila-Bakiku in the Batangi-Mbau grouping in the territory of Beni in North Kivu. According to Kinos Katuo, president of the local civil society, this situation occurs after the new incursion of the ADF rebels in this agglomeration where 7 civilians were killed and two others wounded. The same source said that the inhabitants of this locality fled this place and some went to secure places. “I inform you that we are now in concern. The population fled and the place is empty since the morning of this Saturday,Mamove and its surroundings are quiet and empty. It is a Pyschosis that reigns here now. Some are heading to Oicha, the capital of the territory and others are heading for Ituri province, ”he said. This civil society executive adds that the police are pursuing the enemies who continue to mourn the population of this corner. Rosette Kavula, deputy administrator of the territory in charge of finances reassured that the situation is under the control of the armed forces of the DRC. “May the population remain quiet. We are monitoring the situation closely with our soldiers, the rebel threat is already moving away from the attacked environment, ”she said. It should be noted that, to decry the persistence of the massacres in this region 6 years later, the pressure group Véranda Mutsanga took to the streets that same Saturday to call on the authorities to take the issue of the killings in Beni in hand.

2 maimai,1 FARDC soldier killed in the night of Thursday to Friday October 02/10/2020 in Nyamilima

 

As i ealier reported about a clash in Nyamilima on 26/9/2020,you can read more   https://acidicsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/09/on-sunday-evening-there-was-clash.html?m=1   ,Two MaiMai and a FARDC soldier were killed the night of Thursday to Friday October 02, 2020 in a new clash in Nyamilima. This is the result of an exchange of fire between these May-May fighters and soldiers around 10 p.m. in the Tumaini neighborhood in this part of the Binza groupement, in Rutshuru territory. Independent sources in Nyamilima report that a residual Mai-Mai fighters from the group of former Mai-Mai commander Charles Bokande came to see his family in Tumaini neighborhood on Thursday. Soldiers installed in this area have been reported of this presence. They then ambushed this element. At 10 p.m. on Thursday, October 01, 2020, they opened fire on Mr. Consolé who was talking with his brother. An exchange of fire ensued in which the two brothers fell. The weapon that Mai-Mai held was recovered by the loyalist army. Our sources there speak of an FARDC element killed in this exchange of fire. Operational sector spokesman Sokola II spoke of a clash with  MaiMais who had infiltrated the town of Nyamilima. For Major Guillaume, the army wanted to disarm the Mai-Mais in order to put them out of harm's way. The army spokesman also said that he deplored the death of an officer. He reassures that the situation is under control.

In 6 month,there will be no war in eastern DRC says Silyvan Mutombo.

Delegate to the Minister of National Defense and Veterans Affairs, declared this Saturday, October 3, 2020, that the war which has been raging for several years in the east of the country will end in 6 months. Statement made by Sylvain Mutombo during a press briefing organized in Kinshasa on the occasion of year one of his assumption of office as Minister in charge of ex-combatants in the Ilunga administration. "In 6 months, there will be no more war in the East. I myself will be on the ground there in the East," said Sylvain Mutombo. However, this member of the Ilunga government lamented the fact that among the people who fuel the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are some who live here in the capital Kinshasa. "Those responsible for the war in the East live with us, they are with us (...) This war is maintained by people with whom we live, politicians, generals", denounced the Minister Delegate to the Minister of National Defense in charge of Veterans Affairs. Now,my question is:if they know them,why can't they arrest them?Regarding the results of his action within the coalition government this minister considers it positive. "Our record is positive but there is still a lot of other things to do," said Sylvain Mutombo.

Ugandan cabinet has approved the construction of roads in eastern DRC.

“Cabinet has approved the construction and upgrading of the national road from Kasindi section (border) to Beni (80kms) and the integration of the Beni-Butembo Axis (54 kms) to national road,” said Uganda government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo on Tuesday.

He further said government would also construct another road from Bunagana in South Western district of Kisoro through Ruchuru up to Goma (89kms).

Opondo said the project “will benefit the government and people of Uganda through the economic interconnectivity that would provide improved mobility and ease of business.”

This development comes almost a year after President Museveni and his DRC counterpart, Felix Tshisekedi agreed at State House Entebbe to jointly construct roads to facilitate cross border trade.

Other roads being considered include Mpondwe-Beni road which is about 977 kilometres and Goli-Bunia road (181 Kilometres).

The volume of trade between Uganda and DR Congo was estimated at $ 531 million by July 2019, but this is largely informal.

Uganda last year decided to focus on the DRC market after Rwanda closed its borders to Ugandan goods and stopped Rwandans from visiting Uganda.

Uganda’s trade with Rwanda was worth $200m.

The closure of the border by Rwandan authorities saw Ugandan manufacturers lose millions of dollars, compelling Kampala to look elsewhere for market.

Museveni, who has in recent years spearheaded an ambitious industrialization policy to promote the manufacturing sector, is keen on expanding the regional market for goods produced in Uganda.

Some of Uganda’s major exports include coffee, tea, spices, fish, dairy, eggs, honey, sugar, confectionary, steel, sugar, cotton, cement, plastics and pharmaceuticals among others.

During the Entebbe meeting, Museveni and Tshisekedi noted “with concern the numerous trade restrictive measures and infrastructure bottlenecks, which increase the cost of doing business in the region.”

Security

Both leaders agreed to fast-track the implementation of infrastructure projects to increase trade and investment between both countries.

According to research by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, some of the major problems faced by traders while participating in cross border trade include forced bribery, ambushes and robbery, confiscation or loss of goods to border officials and imprisonment or detention.

The Beni-Butembo Axis where the new roads will be constructed is known as the ‘death triangle’ for providing refuge to militants especially the Ugandan rebel movement, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

The ADF have in recent years stepped up their military activities near the Ugandan border, killing civilians and UN peacekeepers.

Routing the rebel movements would be a major requirement for the successful implementation of the infrastructure project.

Still, tarmac roads are necessary in Eastern Congo to allow DRC security forces quickly respond to emergencies and even realize state presence.

Poor roads continue to undermine efforts to develop the area, creating a fertile ground for rebel movements to recruit and terrorize the region.

Tshisekedi, whose government has since last year waged a protracted military operation against ADF rebels, agreed to work closely with Uganda and other countries in the region to address the issue of negative forces and other armed groups in Eastern DRC.

Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa said joint efforts must be “strengthened to deal with the negative forces and armed groups such as ADF that terrorizes the population. We believe that neutralizing such groups and denying them sanctuary to operate, will contribute significantly in creating a peaceful environment for trade and investment to thrive.”

DRC has since expressed willingness to join East African Community.

Seven years later, Kampala and Kinshasa revive their electric interconnection project

Silent since 2014, Uganda-Democratic Republic of the Congo power transmission line project surfaces with convergence of interest from both countries.

Through the Nile Basin Initiative, an organization bringing together the countries responsible for regulating waters of the river, Kampala and Kinshasa agreed in mid-September to update a feasibility study to be funded by the African Bank of development (AfDB), for electric interconnection between the two countries. A first grind had been finalized in 2014 by American society Aecom. However, this one did not lead to the construction of a construction site due to lack of funding.

Posted as a priority for the Nile Basin Initiative, this project plans to renovate the Nkenda power station in western Uganda and link it to the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To this first stretch, 138 km long, must be added a second line of 214 km between the Congolese communities of Butembo and Bunia.

The objective of this interconnection is finally to be able to export the excess energy produced by Ugandan side to the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Located in the north of the two Kivus, this area is a true 'black pocket' of the Congolese grid, where electricity is provided thanks to expensive diesel generators.

In the spirit of its proponents, this new infrastructure is supposed to contribute to the development of a zone facing ongoing conflicts with armed militias. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the ′′ Triangle of Death ", known as one of the Ugandan rebel shrines of the Allied Democratic Forces(ADF). Present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the early 90 s, the latter have carried out numerous bloody raids in surrounding towns and villages.

′′ Mapping Report It's time for those responsible for the most serious crimes perpetrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo to answer for their actions ′′ (Clément Boursin) 30.09.2020,

 

Ten years after the release of the UN's ′′ Mapping Report an inventory of human rights violations committed between 1993 and 2003, the victims are still waiting for justice.

The ′′ Mapping Report ′′ describes the horrors of ten years of violence and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a chronological and thematic way. He analyzes 617 violent incidents committed between 1993 and 2003 in the DRC. During this decade, all parties to Congolese and foreign rebel groups of Congolese, Ugandan, Burundian, Angolese, Rwandan, Chadian and Zimbabwean conflict have been guilty of grave and massive violations of human rights.

For this work done by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the majority of the 617 documented violence can be called crimes against humanity and war crimes. Regarding the massacres aimed at Hutu people between 1996 and 1997, the report states that attacks by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (APR) and the Alliance of Democratic Forces pour la libération du Congo (AFDL) ′′ reveal several overwhelming elements who, if proven before a competent court, could be called crimes of genocide ". This analysis was strongly criticized by Rwanda when it received the first version of the report for comments in June 2009. Until today, this part of the report continues to crystallize the tensions between Rwandan Patriotic Front (RFF) and pro-FPR and tends to hide the rest of the report's contents.

The identity of alleged perpetrators of documented abuses - approximately 200 people, including several dozens of leading military and political leaders - does not appear in the public report, but is contained in a confidential database available to OHCHR.

While the ′′ Mapping Report ′′ should have become a founding document of the fight against impunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, its recommendations were not implemented. The idea of setting up a specialized court to shed light on the abuses committed between 1993 and 2003 has never been created. While the Congolese regime of former President Joseph Kabila proposed in 2013 the creation of mixed specialized chambers composed of Congolese and foreign judges and integrated into the Congolese judicial system, the law establishing such a body has never been passed. For their part, the judicial systems of neighbouring countries have systematically ignored the abuses committed by their regular armies in Congolese territory.

Major national action

While mobilization of the UN Security Council could have been salvatory on the issue of combating impunity, the latter, due to lack of political will from member states, has failed to respond to the lack of determination of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Neighbouring countries to have those responsible for the most serious crimes committed between 1993 and 2003. When in March 2016 Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize 2018, files a signed letter by nearly 200 non-government organizations (non-government) in OHCHR, calling for the publication of the database identifying the chief criminals described in the ′′ Mapping Report ", OHCHR replies that ′′ Public disclosure of this information could endanger the victims and witnesses of such violations ". However, it is questionable whether the presence of alleged perpetrators of these crimes in the highest ruling bodies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring countries does not further endanger the population in the country.

With the end of the Kabila family's long reign of nearly twenty-five years, during which impunity has been the rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the hope of taking the country into a new, more respectful path of human rights is reborn among the opinion Congolese public, with the tormented arrival of Félix Tshisekedi to the Congolese presidency in January 2019.

It is now time for President Tshisekedi, a politician who is not from the world of arms, from an armed group and has no connection with any of them, to take major national action, in consultation with civil society, to break with past impunity and commit the country to lasting peace based on justice and respect for human rights. This cannot be done without the ′′ Mapping Report ′′ whose recommendations need to be implemented, especially with regard to the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms.

It's time that politicians and military leaders of the most serious crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003 respond to their actions before the courts and the victims finally get redress. The advent of restorative justice is essential to building peace in the country. Publicly disclosing their names, listed in the OHCHR database, could help to remove them from power, bring them to justice and free the words of victims and witnesses who are no longer forced to live in fear of reprisals of their executioners. The Mapping Report must no longer be a taboo topic.

Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, received a delegation from the military engineering authority of the Egyptian Armed Forces on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

 Egypt ready to accompany the Democratic Republic of Congo in the execution of the project of airworthiness of the Congo River Boma in Kinshasha.

Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, received a delegation from the military engineering authority of the Egyptian Armed Forces at the primature on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The exchanges between this delegation led by General Mahmoud Shain, accompanied by Egypt's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Hamdy Shaaban and the leader of the Congolese government have revolved around the areas of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

At the end of the meeting, reports Primature Press Department, General Mahmoud Shain said that the flagship project that motivated their displacement is the conduct of feasibility studies for the navigability of the Congo River from Boma to Kinshasa.

In the same vein, Egypt's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed that his country and Congo-Kinshasa are working together to build a new momentum for cooperation, because Cairo is interested in strengthening investment ties with Kinshasa.

The Egyptian Diplomat also appreciated the prime minister's participatory approach, Ilunga Ilunkamba in this South-South cooperation.

It should also be pointed out that this delegation was also composed of the officials of the two Egyptian companies already operational in various projects in Congo-Kinshasa, including Arab Contractor and Hassan Allan.