Kamerhe and Jammal have been sentenced each to 20 years + 10 years of forced labor

Vital Kamerhe and Jammal Samih are each sentenced to 20 years of forced labor for the abuse of US $ 48 million for SAMIBO SARL; and 10 years of forced labor, each for hijacking at least 2 million US dollars granted to HUSMAL SARL.
Vital Kamerhe and Jean Muhima each 2 years of forced labor for hijacked $ 1,1 million for prefabricated house clearance. However his lawyer said"We are going to appeal. This judge has not done justice. He was sentenced on the basis of the elements not discussed at the hearing. He did not prove how did vital Kamerhe hijacked the money ", announces, on TOP Congo FM, Me Kabengela, lawyer of vital Kamerhe sentenced to " 20 years of forced labor and 10 years of ineligibility for " more than USD 48 m
For him, "we condemn vital Kamerhe on simple statements by Sammih Jammal and Jeannot Muhima".
Mr. Kabengela even believes that "The Court has sentenced people who have never been a member of the trial by ordering the confiscation of the funds contained in the bank accounts of Hamida Chature and Soraya Mpiana when it should have opened the debates".
The Republic covers its rights
" I do not comment on the decision of justice. She has been returned. I have no feeling. The Republic has recovered its right ", believes, for its part, Coco Kayudi.
For the lawyer of the Republic, "going on appeal is the most legitimate right" of vital Kamerhe.
UNC party is calling for calm and not too turn violent
" The party will hold a meeting to give an official position. We ask all our members and supporters to remain calm while waiting for the party's directions ", urges Totshumany Kisombe.
The speaker of the UNC / Kinshasa did not stop revealing that " we are doing very badly, but we were prepared. Justice did not elaborate the law. It's a theatre. This is a montage. We are against this condemnation. We think she was oriented ".
Reason why "we will go to all bodies at both national and international levels to demonstrate the innocence of vital Kamerhe".
In addition,vital Kamerhe,he is banned on access to public and public service, whatever the level and denial of the right to condemnation or Conditional release and rehabilitation whose purpose is to benefit the guilty of the benefits.and collection of funds into family accounts
The court also required the seizure of the funds contained in the accounts of Hamida Shakur and Soraya Mpiana as well as those of Daniel Masaro, daughter-in-law and cousin of the convicted man.
For the head of the company Samibo Jammal, in addition to his condemnation, the court decides his expulsion from Congolese territory after his sentence.
For his part, the third accused, Jeannot Muhima, is sentenced to 2 years of forced labor and the court has decided that he should be arrested immediately.
According to the procedure, convicts have 10 days to appeal.

India ready to purchase 33 MiG-29 and Su-30MKI military aircrafts under emergency order amidst border tensions with China

India and Russia have been negotiating the purchase of MiG-29 and Su-30MKI aircraft since last year. In 2019, a top-level Indian Air Force (IAF) team visited a Russian facility to check the MiG-29 fighter jets; later, it submitted a favourable report to the IAF headquarters.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has decided to purchase 33 fighter jets from Russia under an emergency clause amid an ongoing border stand-off with China. Government sources have confirmed that the IAF has moved a proposal to the Defence Ministry for approval in which it has suggested the acquisition of 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from Russia.
"The Air Force has been working on this plan for some time but they have now fast-tracked the process and the proposals expected to be worth over $800 million (INR 6,000 crore) would be placed before the Defence Ministry for its final approval next week at a high-level meeting", government sources told ANI.

The move comes after the IAF team found the price offered by Russia to be competitive. In 2008, India and Russia signed a $964 million contract for the modernisation of 62 MiG-29 twin-engine single-seat air superiority fighters (54 fighters and 8 trainers).
The IAF has also decided to expedite the purchase of additional Su-30s from Russia, which will serve as substitutes for jets which have been lost in accidents. IAF head Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria, in a media interaction in October 2019, confirmed that the additional Sukhoi-30MKI fighters would be built by HAL in Nasik.
“We are moving towards ordering 12 more Sukhoi-30s. Whether we need some more in lieu of aircraft that are going to get phased out from 2025 onwards… we will have to take a look later. But at the moment, 12 is what is being followed up straightaway”, Bhadauria said.
Last year, India's state-funded Hindustan Aeronautics Limited offered to produce 40 more Sukhoi-30MKI fighters at a cost of around $64 million per unit, which is lower than that of the multi-role fighter Rafale.
The IAF is facing a shortage of over 200 fighter jets in order to meet the contingencies of a two-front war with China and Pakistan. Earlier, on Tuesday, the Indian government gave additional powers to the armed forces to stock up war reserves.
Border ties between India and China have been strained for over a month and a series of high-level meetings have been conducted to resolve the border issue in the Galvan Valley, where at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a brutal clash with the People's Liberation Army. However, no conclusion has been reached so far.

USA's new killer ninja bomb raise fear of apparent normalisation of extrajudicial killings.

Since the US’s first drone strikes in Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon and CIA have gone on to use the weapons in Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. Last year, the Trump administration revoked the policy of disclosing the number of civilians killed in such attacks in undeclared battlefields as total strikes soared.
The deployment of precision missiles like the Hellfire R9X , the so-called ‘ninja bomb’ which features no explosives, but is packed with half-a-dozen razor-sharp blades designed to chop the enemy to pieces, is likely to cause a further increase in drone strikes, says Air Marshal (ret.) Greg Bagwell, a former Royal Air Force deputy commander.
“The less lethal the weapon the smaller the area that is exposed to danger, even if the weapon fails to guide properly,” he said, speaking to The Telegraph. “As you shrink that envelope there is the temptation to take shots in a situation you would not have been able to with a more lethal weapon.”
Bagwell’s comments came in the wake of last week’s reports on the killing of two commanders of Horas al-Din, an al-Qaeda linked group operating in a militant-occupied area of northwest Syria.
Chris Cole, director of Drone Wars UK, a UK-based NGO seeking to ban the use of armed drones, echoed Bagwell’s concerns, suggesting new weapons like the R9X increase the propensity of politicians and commanders to use them.
“This is often just a short term fix as politicians aren’t around for very long and any long term solutions, like other political or diplomatic solutions, often take many years, so they tend to opt for short term solutions,” Cole noted, adding that through drone strikes, leaders are “transferring the risk of combat from our boys to the civilians in the areas where conflict is taking place, and I think that does lower the threshold.”
Furthermore, the observer warned, militaries using so-called ‘precision’ drone strikes have been known to play up successful attacks while playing down unsuccessful ones. “We never see the images of near misses or complete misses. That feeds the Hollywood idea of air warfare where every missile hits its target 100 percent of the time.” This, Cole says, is just plain wrong. “There have been plenty of times individuals have been reported as struck, but they turn up alive, and there have been several reports of people walking away from these strikes because they haven’t been as accurate as they can be.”
According to Cole, the notion of ‘precision’ drone strikes actually only opens up areas, such as cities or towns, to potential attack.
“There’s a real possibility that these new munitions would see the further expansion of drone targeted killing, perhaps completely letting it off the leash,” the observer warned. “It’s a further normalization of the idea of extra judicial, or targeted, killing.”
Cole added that drone strikes erode traditionally defined geographic boundaries of armed conflict and national sovereignty.
It is believed, for example, that the US used a modified R9X missile in the January 4 attack which killed Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.
Soleimani’s killing “was a big step change,” according to Cole. “And if this further enables the expansion of targeted killing it is extremely worrying. We’ve seen over the last couple of years other states begin to copy the US,” he noted, pointing to a UAE drone strike against a Houthi leader in Yemen, and Turkey’s use of drones in Syria and Iraq. “This idea that you take out individuals without judicial oversight in far off battlefields is expanding rapidly,” he said.

Over the past two decades, the United States military has carried out thousands of drone strikes on targets across the Middle East, West Asia and Africa, hitting suspected terrorist targets in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen. The numbers on civilian casualties from such attacks are hard to come by. However, according to the New America Foundation, in strikes carried out between 2004 and 2011, as many as 20 percent of the estimated 2,551 people killed were civilians or unknown persons.

On Saturday,Iran tested it's land to see missiles in Indian ocean

After importing all types of armaments and equipment for years, Iran has been increasingly switching toward the domestic production of military wares presenting new achievements of its defence industry almost every year.
Iranian naval forces have tested newly acquired land-to-sea and sea-to-sea cruise missiles. This occurred during the so-called "Ramadan Martyrs" drills conducted in the Sea of Oman and in the northern part of the Indian Ocean.
The missiles, the newest product of the Iranian defence industry, were fired from ground-based launchers and from the Iranian Navy's warships, successfully hitting their designated targets around 280 kilometres away. The military said that the missiles' effective range might be increased in the future.
The military exercise's name apparently refers to an incident that took place on 10 May in the Sea of Oman, where an Iranian support ship, the Konarak, was severely damaged in a "friendly fire" incident. The tragic event claimed the lives of 19 servicemen , leaving 15 more injured.
Iran has been actively running naval war games in the region amid continuing US military presence in the Persian Gulf. Tehran has repeatedly demanded that Washington withdraw its forces, arguing that they have no positive impact on the region's security. Iran insists that the region's states can ensure its security on their own.

Iran will soon begin the manufacture of a new class of supersonic cruise missiles known as the Talaeey-e to complement the subsonic weapons currently in service, Navy Commander Rear Adm. Hossein Khanzadi has announced.
“In the near future, we have on the agenda the production of supersonic missiles, which use Turbofan engines to fly several times the speed of sound,” the commander said, his comments cited by Iranian media.
According to Khanzadi, the missiles’ engines will receive upgrades to withstand higher temperatures over a longer period of time, with refueling and navigation systems also subject to improvements. “Today we have reached the range of 300 km, and we will achieve more exciting ranges in the near future,” the commander said.
Furthermore, the commander noted, in addition to the new missiles, Iran’s Navy will seek to develop vertical launch capability to allow more missiles to be fitted onto the decks of its surface warships. At the moment, cell-based VLSs are employed by the US and allied navies, with Russia, China, India, Japan and South Korea also using the technology in ships ranging from corvettes and frigates to destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers.
Iran’s Navy test-fired a new generation cruise missile on Thursday, with the weapons, launched from both trucks and ships, said to have destroyed targets at ranges of up to 280 km, and to be resistant to electronic warfare.
On Saturday, Iranian Defence Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami indicated that Iran’s military industry has reached an extremely high level of self-sufficiency, enabling it to produce everything from equipment for the army, navy and air force to electronic systems and radar technology.
“The enemy is too afraid of this defence power and Iran’s military authority, especially in the area of missile capability,” Hatami said , speaking at a ceremony dedicated to the death of Mostafa Chamran, an Iranian commander killed in 1981 during the Iran-Iraq War. According to Hatami, Iran’s adversaries have recognized Iran’s progress, and have sought to limit the country’s development using “cruel sanctions.”
In recent years, Iran has resisted US and European pressure to reduce its missile power, citing the need to defend itself against foreign aggression. The country is known to possess over 1,000 short and medium-range missiles, and is reported to have ramped up development and production following the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018, and multiple incidents in the Gulf ranging from tanker sabotage to ship seizures, drone shootdowns, and the US assassination of a senior Iranian general in Baghdad in January. Tehran responded to the latter by firing multiple missiles at US bases in Iraq, which left over 100 US troops with traumatic brain injuries.

A 3 day dialogue(funded by MONUSCO) of consultation" of the Lendu community of the chiefdom of Welendu Watsi in ITURI.Main issue is to discuss the CODECO militias and their attrocities.

This Saturday, June 20, 2020, that a delegation of the provincial government launched in Mahagi, "a dialogue of consultation" of the Lendu community of the chiefdom of Welendu Watsi on the insecurity caused by the CODECO militias,plus other criminal groups.
At the head of this delegation,is the Minister to the Governor in charge of ITPR, Bule and the Minister of the Interior and Security, Adjio Gidi, accompanied by the legal adviser to the provincial governor, who stays in this territory.
This 3-day consultation, funded by Monusco, brings together local chefs and some notables of Bbale. This comes after finding that the Mahagi territory is exposed and runs a permanent risk of insecurity as we and other entities continue alerting the gorvenments of such a risk.
This is why, in his wordd, Minister Adjio "challenged the Lendu people has to restore their tarnished image".
Since the beginning of the atrocities in Djugu and Mahagi, several dialogues have been organized by the Central and Provincial governments, with the aim of seeking peace. But until then, the CODECO militia continues to massacre the Iturian population.

CODECO militias continue terrorizing ITURI in DRC

Alleged Codeco militiamen kidnapped
3 electricians from the company Electrokimo, the branch of Sokimo which manages the hydroelectric plant of Budana which supplies the city of Bunia and the surrounding area with electrical energy.
The fact occurred earlier this week on the road to Nyangarai, said engineer Fabrice Bozene head of the electricity network in this state-owned company.
"They were sent to repair the high-voltage line that goes to Mungwalu, but armed men kidnapped them. The security services are already on the job to try to find them "he said.
According to him, the kidnappers who contacted officials of Electrokimo demand a ransom before releasing the 3 technicians who would be exposed to atrocious torture.
The Codeco attackers have multiplied kidnapping acts for ransom in this region.
Earlier this month, a civil society actor in Bambu was kidnapped before being shot dead for lack of ransom payment by his family.
Also  in the morning of Friday, June 19, 2020, men in the arms identified with CODECO militiamen ambushed the Djalasiga-Mahagi road more than 80 km west of downtown Mahagi.
Arnold Lokwa, chief of chiefdom of Panduru's reports, indicates that the attackers looted two bikers before burning down a few huts but didn't specifying the exact number.
Then they disappeared into the wild at the level of the village Ukurokwodo.
"They were seen in Umu on the Djalasiga-Mahagi road. They were youths with sharp edged weapons, on their way, they just looted the money from the motorcycle riders and released them, "he said.
This section connecting the locality of Djalasiga to the rural commune of Mahagi has been insecure since the atrocities recorded by the Anghal 2 group during the past few months.

A commission has been established to identify immigrants in Irumu territory of Iturii

The provincial governor  of ituri signed a decree this week establishing a commission to identify migrant populations in southern Irumu territory.
Among the migrants concerned, there are in particular the Hutu who speak kinyarwanda, commonly called "Banyabwisha" who came in search of arable land and who are established in the chiefdoms of Boga, Tchabi and Mitego from North Kivu.
There are also Ugandan herders called “Bakonzo” who cross the Semuliki River in this same region in search of pasture for their livestock.
"His Excellency the Governor of the Province, the Honorable Jean Bamanisa Saidi has just issued an order establishing a commission to identify and identify migrant populations called Banyabwisha and Bakonzo" said the provincial Minister of the Interior during afrom talk to the press.
Adjio Gidi clarified that among the missions assigned to this commission, there is in particular the location, identification and census of these people and acquire necessary information on the causes of their mass migration in this part of the country.
It will also be necessary to note the neighborhood conditions between these migrants and the local populations in order to assess the need for their settlement in the area.
Several groups of the Ituri population, including national deputies, women, and other vital forces had already decried the massive arrival of these migrants, suspecting them of being at the root of the insecurity currently experienced in the territories. by Djugu, Mahagi, Irumu and Mambasa.
It is since 2012 that waves of Banyabwisha populations from North Kivu via Beni arrived in big numbers to establish themselves in ituri while their origin and even their notionality are often questioned by the natives who often suspect them of be Rwandan refugees expelled from Tanzania.