7 mai mai rebels killed by DRC army(FARDC) in clashes that occurred up to early morning hours of 15/7/2020

 A clash between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Mayi-Mayi militiamen resulted in the death of 7 of these rebels of the Mayi-Mayi / Kyandega faction.
The fact occurred the night of Tuesday to this Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in the locality of Angwalaba, on the border between the territories of Irumu and Mambasa, in Ituri province.
The army spokesman in this province who announces it specifies that 3 weapons of type AK-47 and of bladed weapons were also recovered by the FARDC on patrol in the area.
According to Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, sweeping operations are continuing in the region to find other militiamen. In the meantime, he calls on all negative forces to lay down their arms.
The activism of the Mai-Mai militiamen has been reported in recent years mainly in Mambasa territory, where they have been the source of several atrocities against civilians, medical personnel and sometimes journalists.

This what a human right organisation represented to the UN security council on and about the security situaty in Eastern DRC

Invited to the UN Security Council, United Nations held in early July 2020 from New York by video conference under the presidency of the Republic of Germany, Dismas Kitenge Senga combed through the overall security situation in Eastern DRC, currently characterized by "threats from foreign armies and the resurgence of armed groups" committing atrocities on civilian populations.
In his speech on July 07, the president of the NGO Groupe LOTUS, a human rights organization based in Kisangani, verbally decried to United Nations hosts that "the neutralization of armed groups in the party East of the country constitutes a major challenge for the Congolese army and the forces of Monusco who support it. ”
"At the security level, in the territory under government control, the security and defense forces face a problem of unity of command, dysfunction, insufficient means and ineffectiveness in defending territorial integrity, currently threatened by incursions by armies from neighboring countries into Congolese soil, but also and above all to secure people and their property. Said Dismas Kitenge.
"In areas in armed conflict, despite some successes against the ADF-NALU in the territory of Beni, the neutralization of all the armed groups active in the eastern part of the country constitutes a major challenge for the Congolese army and the forces of the Monusco who support it. "
He added that "the resurgence of elements of the armed group LRA in the province of Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele committing atrocities on civilian populations raises fears of an escalation of violence especially because of the weak presence of the army Congolese and the complete absence of civilian and military units from Monusco. "
Still, the UN Security Council has been exposed to the activism of the armed group, CODECO, still under atrocious threat from Ituri province.
"In Ituri, the activism of the armed group, CODECO, by the commission of atrocities thanks to the local populations constitutes a serious threat to peace and security in this region. Continued Dismas Kitenge Senga.
He also noted that “the difficulties of implementing an effective and coherent policy for the mobilization, disarmament and social reintegration of armed groups are an important challenge to the process of pacification in the eastern part of the country. "
In this same option, insists Dismas Kitenge, the human rights situation in this fragile context, finds it impacted by the commission of frequent human rights violations, the impunity of most of their perpetrators and the difficulties of implementing reforms. necessary and urgent for the improvement of the situation and the advent of the rule of law in the DRC.

Health authorities in Ituri have decided to make masks mandatory in all offices and other public places, after the province recorded its 6th positive case of the Coronavirus pandemic.

According to our confidant source,Health authorities in Ituri have decided to make masks mandatory in all offices and other public places, after the province recorded its 6th positive case of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The provincial health minister, who announced it, said the new patient is a health worker who developed signs before his samples tested positive.
Doctor Patrick Karamura added that the patient is already placed in isolation and around fifty people who have come into contact with him are already listed and followed up by a medical team.
With this new case in Bunia, the number of patients goes from 5 to 6 for Ituri, the first two are already declared cured, while two others are in Mahagi territory, more than 180km north of the province, at the Ugandan border.

If this letter is genuine,then the decision makers in FARDC(DRC army) must be myopic

Did President Tshisekede mean that Banyamulenge in diaspora are being used by Rwanda to resent his gorvenment???

The military court garrison in Beni-Butembo (North-Kivu) sentenced police officer Ombeni Mongisa Eric on Monday, 13 July 2020 to life, for murder of citizen movement activist Freddy Muhindo on May 21th.

The military court garrison in Beni-Butembo (North-Kivu) sentenced police officer Ombeni Mongisa Eric on Monday, 13 July 2020 to life, for murder of citizen movement activist Freddy Muhindo on May 21th.
He is required to pay, jointly with the Republic, a fine of US$ 100 for damages to the civil party.
This chief police officer was found guilty of the death of Lucha militant killed with a bullet in the head during a demonstration in Kalinda, Mulekera municipality against insecurity in Beni.
Several militants and family members of the missing have followed the trial open for over a month.
′′ We have a sense of relief because we see justice is doing its work. We also ask that whoever killed Obadi (November 2019) be prosecuted and sentenced. We also ask that the police commander be prosecuted because the murderer was under his command ", says Stéphanie Mbafumoja, member of the Lucha.
The convicted prisoner who claims his innocence accused the PNC commander in Beni, Colonel François Kabeya of hiding the true author of the death of the Lucha activist.

Chinese scientists have created coronavirus-resistant transgenic mice that can be used to test vaccines and drugs against COVID-19

In late March, China kicked off the first phase of clinical trials to test the safety and effectiveness of its newly developed vaccine for the coronavirus.
Chinese scientists have created coronavirus-resistant transgenic mice that can be used to test vaccines and drugs against COVID-19 , Mi Jidong, chief executive of the Beijing-based biotechnology company SinoGene, said on Friday.
He explained that ordinary animals are immune to the corona, so using the methods of cloning and editing the genome makes it possible for scientists to transplant the human gene (hACE2) into genetically modified creatures.
Mi said that this is done “in order to infect the animal participating in the experiment and test the effectiveness of vaccines or drugs”.
According to him, the genetically engineered mice for testing a COVID-19 vaccine were created on 23 June as part of a joint project involving SinoGene, SPF Beijing Biotechnology, and several other companies.
SinoGene, in turn, pointed out that "the use of hACE2 mice in relevant studies may significantly increase the effectiveness and success rate of preclinical drug testing”, including one pertaining to COVID-19.
The company also signalled a readiness to boost the process of making transgenic mice in order to support research work aimed at combating the coronavirus.

Mi’s remarks come after China in June refuted accusations of being behind attempts to sabotage COVID-19 vaccine development in western countries, asking Rick Scott, a US senator who made such claims, to show proof.
“Well, if he does have such evidence, just show it to us. No need to be shy", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said, adding that vaccine development was not a race between China and the United States, "but one between mankind and the virus".
The spokesperson recalled Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge that after being developed and deployed, China's COVID-19 vaccine “will be made a global public good”.
“This will be China's contribution to enhancing vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries", Hua pointed out.
Clinical trials of the first vaccine developed in China began in mid-March, with 108 volunteers taking part in the tests. The vaccine was developed by China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences in cooperation with the biotech firm CanSino Bio.
The trials followed the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March after the disease, which originated in China's Wuhan last December, shifted to Europe and beyond. As of Thursday, there have been more than 11.8 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, with more than 545,000 fatalities, according to the WHO’s latest estimates .
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A writer is my friend who is a Russian virology student.