M23's radio already airing from Bunagana

 

Like we reported last week,M23 rebels have already launched a radio UPENDO_FM which broadcasts from Bunagana in Rutchuru in the province of North Kivu in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The broadcasts take place and some politicians come to participate in the various debates. Belinda Osca member of the community department of this rebellion chaired these activities.

Rwanda dismisses state minister J.Munyeshuli

 

Five days of fight for Kanyabayonga..Many youth he died!

 

For five days the FARDC and the M23 have been fighting around the town of Kanyabayonga in the territory of Lubero in the province of North Kivu. According to local sources, the Congolese army maintains its control over this strategic area. Security sources confirm that the rebels have been strengthening their troops since last Saturday and have simultaneously opened two fronts on two axes leading to Kanyabayonga. These are the Rwindi-Kanyayonga and Birundule-kanyabayonga axes. The belligerents used heavy and light artillery during these combats. Some detonations were heard as far away as Kirumba, more than 40 kilometers from the combat zone. While the fighting raged last week, the town of Kanyabayonga was emptied of its population. Men, women, children and elderly people fled the area. Since last week, the M23 rebels and the FARDC/Wazalendo have been fighting to control the city. The M23 have reinforced their troops since last week and tried unsuccessfully on Sunday to advance towards the city of Kanyabayonga by opening fire on two axes. According to testimonies last Thursday, May 30, 2024 in Kanyabayonga confirm that the rebels corrupted certain FARDC officers so that they could take the city but the Wazalendo came and repelled and neutralized the enemy. Results: 26 M23 dead and 10 captured, among whom we have 2 rebels of Kenyan nationality

.More than 65 RDF terrorists were killed, including a lieutenant-colonel of the special forces of the Rwandan army, 75 injured by the bombings of the FARDC and the SADC around Saké For several days the presence of the Kenyan elements has been confirmed alongside M23 terrorists, Kenyan elements captured and others killed.At 3:20 p.m. the Fardc remotely bombed the M23_RDF elements who were meeting at the edge of JTN in the locality of Katsiru in the Bukombo grouping, Bwito chiefdom in the territory of Rutshuru. Details to follow... Calm is observed this evening in the town of Kanyabayonga which remains under FARDC control after intense fighting all day about 15km from this town.In another report,the Wazalendo are calling all civikians of the great north of north Kivu to join hands with the Wazalendo to fight against the rwandese infiltration.

In Rwanda,parents have been burying their beloved sons,mothers have become childless,children have become orphans and wives he becomes widows.There is great lamentation and sorrow all over the social media from Rwanda.

Kanyabayonga people flee,as youth is Lubero gets sensitized in readiness to join the offensive against the M23

 According to sources, the locality of Kanyabayonga was emptied of its population after army shooting yesterday Friday. The population fears an attack by the M23 rebels who have conquered villages to the south of this rural area located after 170 km north of

Butembo on the Butembo-Goma axis. Since Thursday, residents have been moving and heading towards Kayna, others to Kirumba and Kaseghe, localities located in the direction of Butembo. These residents are taking shelter following the incidents that occurred on the day of yesterday Friday. After a Thursday night agitated by psychosis following the movement of soldiers coming from the front line, the residents panicked because the Fardc soldiers fired bullets between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. an act which panicked many residents who believed in the rebels entered the city and immediately began to empty the locality. Until Friday, sources confirmed that the FARDC controls Kanyabayonga. The situation remains volatile, several human rights activists have abandoned this entity which provides access to the Far North from the territory of Lubéro. Like other inhabitants, they too feared the progression of the M23 who remain positioned around Butalongola, a village located in a groupement Kanyabayonga, Bwito chiefdom. Given the worrying situation in North Kivu, the youth of Libero are mobilizing together to face the Rwandan army and asking the population to remain calm, not abandoning the city to finally fight together with the FARDC.

MONUSCO present alongside FARDC in the defence of Kanyabayonga

 "As M23 has spent the whole day preparing for reinforcements, planning and reorganizing some of it commanders in  Rutshuru, specifically at Rumangabo"

Around 5 a.m. today, the M23_RDF carried out a cordon in the village of Ndumba, taking seven young people found in the houses to transport the corpses of their soldiers who died yesterday in the clashes. They transport these dead on stretchers to Kabase, where it seems that these rebels will bury theirs. 

Photos of M23 soldiers capture by SADC forces' drones before they bombed them to ashes.

In the territory of Rutshuru, since the morning, clashes have been reported in Lusogha and towards Armoiries between the rebels and the FARDC who are trying to regain control of the situation, which is deteriorating every day. The city of Kanyabayonga remains under the control of the FARDC. In the Sake hills, the situation has remained calm since the morning. As we reported yesterday,The M23 rebels lost many men, including senior officers, troopers and non-commissioned officers, during the SADC mission bombings on Thursday 29/05. Among them, Captain BIJUGIZA, whose name has just reached us, as well as a colonel whose photo we received, which is here.

Our intelligence  and confidants are working very hard possibly to have the name of this M23 colonel.our team is also working hard to get photos of all those young souls who perished in this sake crash ,many youth have died in this Sake crash of 28-31st May.That how Rwandese relatives are mourning for their beloved ones who perished in the fighting in DRC.,..Many are feared to have fallen down in the offensive to capture kanayabayonga.

MONUSCO is strengthening its presence in Kanyabayonga to support the FARDC against the M23. The MONUSCO brigade and the rapid intervention force were deployed on site to protect civilians and support the FARDC in the fight against the advance of the rebels in this commune. According to military sources, an operations coordination meeting between the two forces was held this Saturday, June 1 in the morning. A day later, the SADC mission  force recovered the two armored vehicles damaged on the front in the village of Luhonga near Sake in Masisi territory. "They did not capture our armored vehicles, these vehicles were damaged and our teams evacuated them to a safe location. The technology quickly got to work. These vehicles are now in our bases and ready for new service", said a military source close to the SAMIDRC force. In a press release, the M23_RDF_AFC coalition claimed on Friday May 31 to have captured two armored vehicles belonging to SAMIDRC. The South African army, for its part, clarified that its vehicles were not damaged during the clashes near Sake.

Tshisekedi appoints a new head of Domestic intelligence

 Daniel Lusadisu ousted, Justin Inzun Kakiak son returns to security affairs at the ANR! 31 05, 2024 Are the Belgians incapable? This Friday, by a presidential order, Justin Inzun Kakiak was appointed head of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kakiak, who had already led the ANR from March 2019 to December 2021, succeeds Daniel Lusadisu Kiambi. Kakiak is not unknown in the field of Congolese intelligence. After his first mandate at the head of the ANR, he was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Congo, a position he held until his recent appointment. Before his first appointment in 2019, he had already been deputy administrator of the ANR, which gives him in-depth knowledge of the institution. Daniel Lusadisu Kiambi, Kakiak's predecessor, had replaced Jean Hervé Mbelu as head of the ANR. Lusadisu, a doctor specializing in cardiology and emergency medicine trained at the Royal Military Academy in Belgium, had also served within of the Zairian Armed Forces and the Special Presidential Division (DSP). His dismissal comes in a tense context, marked by recent events described as a failed coup attempt by the authorities. Justin Inzun Kakiak will be supported by Justin Mulumba Nsabua, lawyer at the Kongo Central bar, as deputy administrator. When he became president, Félix Tshilombo promised to reform the ANR by humanizing the institution and closing its many secret dungeons, places of detention for many opponents and anti-Kabila activists. The appointment of Kakiak could be seen as a step in the pursuit of this reform. The national and international community is now waiting to see how Kakiak will address the current intelligence challenges in the DRC, particularly in a still unstable political and security climate. Let's just go

Kanyabayonga still under the FARDC and Wazalendo despite the social media rumours that it has been captured.

 After violent clashes on Thursday in the hills overlooking Sake, the situation is calm this Friday. SADC bombings have reduced a M23_RDF reserve force to dust in Rumeneti. Several deaths have been reported in Mushaki, including officers and soldiers bombed in their positions in the Mushaki hills, says our source on site. In Kanyabayonga, the FARDC still controls the city despite the advance of the rebels as far as Butalongola, less than 15 km away. The FARDC positions remain intact towards Armoiries. In the territory of Masisi, fighting broke out at 4 a.m. between the M23-RDF and the Wazalendo. At 7:10 a.m., the Wazalendo, led by self-proclaimed General Kawiti, recovered the strategic Ndumba hill for a few hours. At 9:30 a.m., a reinforcement of the M23 from Kiluku and nambi/kabase has just succeeded in repelling the wazalendo, thus regaining control of this locked hill of #Shasha and muremure. The wazalendo are reorganizing, the situation remains volatile. Fighting has also been reported since 5 a.m. on Kasopo hill in the Bashali group. As of now,after a day of urban fighting,the Wazalendo and FARDC have taught the M23 a very good lesson,and claims to have killed an M23 commander in these clashes for kanyabayonga.

A YOUNG MAN SUSPECTED SPY OF THE M23 REBELS WAS STONED THEN BURNED IN MUGUNGA

 

He was stoned on Thursday, May 30, 2024 by the angry population, mostly displaced by war, not far from the Lushagala camp in the Mugunga district. According to local testimonies, this alleged M23 spy was filming the positions of the FARDC in Lushagala from or the army would have responded. According to the population, he was filming to direct the M23 rebels who were seeking to destroy the heavy weapons of the FARDC who had been shooting at them since 4 a.m. ''There were 3 of them and they filmed each time it was fired, the direction from which the shots from the heavy weapons of the Congolese army and the SAMIDRC came and sent the images to the M23_RDF. When the population approached from him his two others vanished into the Lushagala camp. After the population got their hands on him, he began to ask for forgiveness, begging to go and show where those who entrusted him with this filming mission were. But under the influence of anger and without qualms. , the population burned him alive after being stoned. ''explains a resident at the scene. The president of Mugunga civil society, Christian KALAMO condemns this case of popular justice which benefited the enemy rather than the loyalist forces. A resident explains: ''His phone is proof, he was filming the heavy weapons, he had already sent the photos to members of the M23, we have suffered for a long time, we cannot tolerate that someone for their own interests continues to attack us. .'' This is an act that we do not encourage, by carrying out this act the country lends a lot of information which was to help the country. The person killed would be a lead exploited to have all the information necessary to properly identify the sponsors . But when the population does mob justice, the government loses many things that it would have revealed and informed.

A new administration in Kinshasha!

 The Suminwa government, an in-depth reshuffle The new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, led by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa, has 54 members, 3 fewer than the previous cabinet of Sama Lukonde. There is a slight increase in female representation, with 17 ministers compared to 16 previously. This in-depth reshuffle resulted in 30 new ministers appointed, while 15 old ones were reappointed and 9 were reassigned to other ministries. This government will have the difficult task of meeting the economic, social and security challenges facing the country in the years to come. Here is the complete list of members of the Judith Suminwa Tuluka government.

M23 launches an FM radio station in Bunagana.

 

M23 have opened a new fm radio station.It will be officially opened and launched on 2 June . According to various people contacted ,this radio is to publicise the activities and programs of M23.This radio station is haboured in Bunagana.This is showing that M23 has started improving it's political agenda and a move to more stable political maturity and this undoubtedly will help in disserminating information.One fundamental problems and hindrances M23 has been facing is political clarity.The power of information dissermination,politucal program enlightement and propaganda have played a vital role in wars.This may be the direction.