Gorvenor of Ituri jean bamanisa.when in kinshasha called for strictness and zeal in the fight against rebel groups like CODECO,ADF,etc

Jean Bamanisa Saidi pleads for a better approach in the DDR strategy used until then to encourage combatants active in armed groups to lay down their arms. During his advocacy mission in Kinshasa, the governor of Ituri discussed this issue with Boniface Balamage, 2nd vice-president of the National Assembly, Monday August 10.

“The issues that we encounter should be well known and shared by the National Assembly for follow-up at central government level,” he said.
And to add:

"We have submitted our current problems: to know the causes that cause armed groups to cycle recurrently and fail to find a definitive solution with DDR. We have to think of another approach ”.
In its latest report on the conflict in Beni, the Joint United Nations Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) also called for a more comprehensive approach in the fight against ADF combatants in North Kivu and Ituri. He proposed the establishment of a credible and attractive disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation (DDRR) process, allowing in particular foreign national fighters who have not committed serious human rights violations to return to their country. original if they wish.

2 FARDC soldier killed in bunia central market.

2 military members of the DRC Armed Forces were killed on the afternoon of Monday, August 10, 2020 not far from the central market in Bunia next to a commercial house.

According to other information gathered about the incident, the two soldiers who committed suicide were in the custody of a senior FARDC officer.

The army spokesman in Ituri confirms the information without giving further details.

"I have no details so far, I am trying to find out the causes of this incident" he explained

7 suspected ADF rebels captured in the village of Rugetsi

7 suspected ADF rebels were apprehended during the night from Sunday to Monday August 10, 2020, by the security services in collaboration with the population in Rugetsi, a village in the Malambo group, Ruwenzori sector in the Beni territory in North Kivu .

The information as delivered by the  village chief.

“We arrested 7 men with bladed weapons and several identity cards (those of the Democratic Republic of Congo but also of Uganda). They were on motorcycles and said they came from Kasese in Uganda. claimed that their wives had already preceded them but did not disclose their destination, "Kasereka Virikwamahwa Muleka explained.

This source also specifies that these alleged rebels were taken to Bulongo in the same sector where they would be guarded by elements of the Congolese army "FARDC", while waiting for them to be subjected to interrogation.

The first batch of DRC senior army officers will set for USA in early september 2020 .

According to reliable sources.The first group of senior Army Officer of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be in some classes about military issues in the United States between 3rd to 4th September this year.These drills and shortcourse classes are to enable these officers attain skills of preventing and fighting against chaos of various militia groups that come up everyday.

China’s first amphibious assault ship, the Type 075 landing helicopter dock (LHD), was put to sea for the first time on Wednesday

Photos and video on social media showed the warship being escorted away from the docks by the Hudong Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai by tugboats on Wednesday morning, before steaming away under its own power.
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— Naval News (@navalnewsnet)
August 5, 2020
Judged to be between 35,000 and 40,000 tons displacement, the Type 075 is the rough equivalent of the US Navy’s Wasp-class amphibious assault ships. This class of warship has both a flight deck for launching helicopters or aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing, as well as docking facilities for launching amphibious watercraft and thousands of marines.
Finally clear images of the first Type 075 leaving port ...
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August 5, 2020
Chinese PLAN 075 LHD from above
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Li Jie, a Beijing-based naval expert, told the Global Times that during the ship’s maiden voyage, the crew will likely test its main systems, such as propulsion, navigation, and communication.
The lead ship of what is expected to be a class of three vessels, the first Type 075 was launched from the shipyard in September 2019. Since then, it has remained moored at the dock next to the shipyard as fitting out work continued. It was later joined by a sister ship, and a third is under construction in the drydock.
In April, a fire broke out inside the ship, but it was quickly extinguished.
The Global Times reported at the time the damage was minor and had not impacted the construction schedule.
According to the Global Times, the lead ship will likely not be commissioned until 2021 or 2022. It’s likely the ship will continue to be known as the Type 075 until then, as past warships have not been christened with names until their commissioning, either.

India bans importation of some military equipments

In a major boost to domestic industry, the Indian defence ministry has created a budget of $7 billion for domestic capital procurement in the current financial year, under self-reliant India scheme announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The move is likely to impact defence trade with other countries.
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has announced an absolute ban on the import of 101 defence equipment including simple parts and high technology weapons systems like artillery guns, assault rifles, corvettes, sonar systems, transport aircraft, light combat helicopters, and radar arrays.
Taking cue from that evocation, the Ministry of Defence has prepared a list of 101 items for which there would be an embargo on the import beyond the timeline indicated against them. This is a big step towards self reliance militarily.
With the latest embargo, contracts worth almost $53.354 billion (4 trillion INR) will be transitioned to domestic production within the next five to seven years, the ministry said in a statement. The army and air force are likely to procure items worth $17.340 billion (1.3 trillion INR) and navy for almost $18.674 billion (1.4 trillion INR) in the next four years.
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The Ministry of Defence has also bifurcated the capital procurement budget for 2020-21 between domestic and foreign capital procurement. A separate budget head has been created with an outlay of nearly $6.937 billion (520 bln INR) for domestic capital procurement in the current financial year.
Amid the “big” announcement, opposition leader P. Chidambaram, taking a jibe at the government has said: “the only importer of defence equipment is the Defence Ministry. Any import embargo is really an embargo on oneself. What the Defence Minister said in his historic Sunday announcement deserved only an Office Order from the Minister to his Secretaries!”
The announcement might be a whimper to the former finance minister but the move is going to hit India’s defence trade with Russia and the US. India is the second largest importer of arms in the world, and its largest suppliers are Russia and the US.
Data compiled by Stimson Centre finds that Russia is India’s top defence supplier, accounting for $9.3 billion worth of exports to India since 2014. The US ranks a distant second, having sold defence supplies worth $2.3 billion to India in the same period.
In next few years, Russian equipment like the S-400 systems, fighter jets and a quick reaction defence system will be inducted into the Indian armed forces.
Sameer Lalwani, research fellow at Stimson Center, in his paper shows that 86% of the equipment, weapons and platforms currently in military service in India is of Russian origin; the figure is a whopping 90% if around 10,000 pieces of military hardware are also taken into consideration.

The US national security agency warned military intelligence personels and other military disciplines of turning on location sharing services on their mobile phones

The US National Security Agency (NSA) issued new guidance on Tuesday advising military and intelligence-community personnel to turn off location-sharing services on their cellphones to prevent security breaches.
“Location data can be extremely valuable and must be protected. It can reveal details about the number of users in a location, user and supply movements, daily routines (user and organizational), and can expose otherwise unknown associations between users and locations,” the NSA bulletin warned.
In the alert, the NSA also noted that even if cellular service is turned off for a mobile device, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can still be used to identify a user’s location. Tech companies can then sell parts of that data to marketers, advertisers or other customers.
“Inconspicuous equipment (e.g., wireless sniffers) can determine signal strength and calculate location, even when the user is not actively using the wireless services. Even if all wireless radios are disabled, numerous sensors on the device provide sufficient data to calculate location,” the agency said.
The agency also warned that other gadgets that connect to the internet, including fitness trackers, smart watches, some medical devices and other household smart devices, could be susceptible to security breaches and may reveal sensitive location data.
“While there are countless benefits to using mobile devices, location data exposure can be a risk to users,” Neal Ziring, technical director for cybersecurity at the NSA, said in a
statement to the Wall Street Journal.
“NSA publishes technical and threat analyses based on our authorities and customer needs. As connected mobile devices continue to expand into more networks, we’ve received more queries from our national security customers about using them securely.”
The warning comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing grow over the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, with US President Donald Trump last week saying he plans to ban the app from the US over concerns that China may be using it to collect data on American citizens and businesses.
Most recently, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters Wednesday that the Land of the Free wants to “see untrusted Chinese apps removed from app stores,” noting that apps TikTok and messenger platform WeChat post significant threats to Americans’ personal data.
Microsoft on Sunday revealed that it is in talks to buy some operations of TikTok. Trump this week said he would allow an American company like Microsoft to buy the app, with the caveat that the US Treasury would get a “very large percentage” of the selling price.
"Whether it's Microsoft or somebody else, or if it's the Chinese - what the price is, the United States could - should get a very large percentage of that price. Because we're making it possible," he said, CNN reported.