Coordinator of the Congo River allience corneille Nangaa has just been sentenced to death for treason and participation in an insurrectional movement this Thursday, August 8 by the military court of Kinshasa_Gombe . The court orders his immediate arrest and the confiscation of his property.Others on this sentence are Jean Jacque mamba,Willy Ngoma ,Bertrand Bisimwa..etc
According to the Spokesperson of the FARDC in North Kivu, Lt Colonel Ndjike , Major General Alengbia Nzambe, commander of the 34th military region of the Fardc , recommends that soldiers and police officers living in the city of Goma, seconded or located there for any particular reason, should present themselves with their weapons to the heads of the Neighborhoods for identification. This measure aims to curb the growing insecurity in the city of Goma where less than 48 hours can go by without looting or killings by unidentified men carrying weapons.
The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2746 on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, authorizing the Monusco support for the Mission of the SADC in the DRC by strengthening coordination, information exchange and technical assistance and logistics.
Yesterday,an OSINT and HUMINT report about 12 vehicles including jeeps and Kamaz filled with elements of M23_RDF including officers just finished a meeting at the Equator hotel in Ishasha to design a detailed studying how the m23 establish themselves in the captured area and annexing of more territory.
It after thorough resolutions that the lions of Sarambe planned for the assault on. Nyakakoma.M23 rebels continue to gain ground in the
"The M23 elements arrived in Nyakakoma around 9:15 a.m. They entered without a single shot. It was the elements of the naval force and the Wazalendo who were firing bullets, perhaps to scare each other off. A bomb fell on a home without causing any casualties. However, a young man was hit by a stray bullet in the Kabila neighborhood and he was taken to hospital," a resident of Nyakakoma said.
The crackle of bullets this Wednesday when the M23 rebels arrived in Nyakakoma caused the displacement of several inhabitants of this lakeside town who headed towards the other side of the lake.
“Several residents are moving and crossing the lake using canoes. They are heading towards Talyha, Kamandi, Mubana, Kiserera, Lunyasenge. Some residents prefer to stay in the city. The Wazalendo have headed towards the park while the elements of the naval force have crossed the lake. We who remain in the city are afraid, we do not know where the solution will come from. We prefer to stay there only,” adds our source.
The Wazalendo militiamen who cohabited with the soldiers of the naval force in Nyakakoma have for the most part headed towards Chondo, Kamuororo, Mulimatsanga, villages in the heart of Virunga Park.
The president of the Lake Edward fishermen's federation, Josué Mukura, for his part, expressed fear about fishing activities which are disrupted following the armed clashes.
"The situation in Nyakakoma was critical this morning. The M23 rebels who came to attack the Wazalendo who were still in Nyakakoma. And there, it is reported that a young boy of about ten years old was injured by a bullet. For the time being, the Wazalendo, some police officers and the elements of the naval force who were still there have headed for the park. It is worrying because the long-awaited ceasefire is not being respected. We are really in total difficulty" told us, a citizen activist from the Binza group who also requested anonymity.
For the time being, the Wazalendo, some police officers and the elements of the naval force who were still there have headed for the park. It is worrying because the long-awaited ceasefire is not being respected. We are really in the shit. That is why we keep asking the government to get involved in this issue because we are really in total difficulty" said the citizen activist from the Binza group who also requested anonymity.
Human rights defenders and other local civil society actors are calling on the Congolese government to tackle these advances by the M23 rebels in the Rutshuru territory.
The foreign ministers of the DRC and Rwanda met last week in Luanda around the mediator who is the Angolan president, João Lourenço for peace discussions. A ceasefire was declared on the ground between the Congolese army and the M23. The ceasefire came into effect this Sunday, August 4, 2024 at midnight and will be supervised by the Ad-Hoc Verification Mechanism reinforced by intelligence experts from the three countries and other entities, is the result of the relaunch of the Luanda process, which Kinshasa considers as a privileged mechanism for a return to lasting peace.
In an interview given Tuesday to Top Congo Fm from Brussels where he is observing a moment of convalescence, after having undergone treatment for a slipped disc, Congolese President, Félix Tshisekedi affirmed that it was rather Rwanda that requested the observance of a ceasefire on the combat lines. He reiterated that no negotiation is envisaged with the M23 rebels.
BREAKING: The new AU-led mission to operate in Somalia from Jan 2025 will be
known as the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM); Strategic Concept of Operations has been adopted; Egypt and Djibouti offered to “contribute to the elements of the AUSSOM.”
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Five Explosions heard in the Isfahan Province of Central Iran.
Thousands of Somalis took to the streets in Mogadishu on Monday to protest against the al-Shabaab
militant group following Friday’s deadly complex attack which killed 37, and injured dozens of others.
The protesters chanting anti-Al-Shabaab slogans, such as, “we don’t want Khawa
arij; we don’t want killers of the innocents,” marched through city, including Lido Beach, the scene of the attack.
(Watch thee video,M23 in Ishasha this evening)
Briefing by Deputy Chief of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces Major General Aleksei Rtis...
