FARDC officers in the communication and information service attended a training in investigative journalism,survey techniques and in-depth analysis of information.

 

Congolese army officers members of the communication and information service are trained in investigative journalism, survey techniques and in-depth analysis of information.

Open since last Monday at the initiative of the Centre for Research in Strategy and Communication (CRESCO), this training workshop is held in Kinshasa, capital of the DRC. It will close next Tuesday.

According to Professor José Adolphe Voto, director of this centre, this training session aims to strengthen the ability of army communicators to deliver good information to the public, in particular to improve the image of the army among the population and decision makers ..

This army opening, called the big silent yesterday, he explained, is motivated by the new approach that would want the defense to be no longer the case of the only army.

The epitome of this 8-day workshop is to equip military journalists and their hierarchy with the knowledge necessary for more efficiency and professionalism.

About thirty junior officers, senior and general officers, members of the FARDC's communication and information service take part in it.

The recent ADF attacks in Ituri has made Claude Lubaya to call upon Kinshasha gorvenment to transform its council of minister's meeting into "a council of war and insecurity of eastern DRC"

The recent armed attacks by ADF rebels in Ituri have not left indifferent the elected national deputy of Kananga, Claudel Lubaya, who stigmatizes a deteriorated and trying security situation in eastern DRC.

This is why he calls on the government to transform its meeting of Friday, September 11, 2020 into a Council of War.

"The people are waiting for decisions given the gravity of the situation in the East, not whining," he wrote on his tweet on Friday.

ITURI The security situation has deteriorated considerably in the east and is becoming trying. The Gvt will have to transform its council of this Friday in Council of war. The people are waiting for decisions given the gravity of the situation in the East, and not for whining https://t.co/uurFQ9zwJN

Armed men assimilated to the ADF rebels attacked the village of Belu in the chiefdom of the Banyari Chabi, in Irumu territory, in the province of Ituri, on the night of Tuesday, September 8, 2020.

On the spot, 3 deaths were recorded, including 2 traditional chiefs.

After the search on Wednesday 9 September, 26 other bodies, including that of a customary chief, were discovered, 25 in Pai Pai village on the side of the neighboring Walese Vonkutu chiefdom and another in Mundugulu, in the Tondoli groupement.

According to Jacques Bandingama, president of the local youth council of the Banyari Chabi chiefdom, several other people remain missing.

Commander of Muderi sub police station in north kivu,Puguzi baseme pascal was killed in the night of thursday

 

Puguzi Baseme Pascal, deputy commander of the Muderi sub-police station, was killed on the evening of Thursday, September 10, 2020 by armed bandits who escaped after their crime. Muderi is located about 3 kilometers from the Rubaya mining area, in Masisi territory in North Kivu.

According to its holder, it was around 8 p.m. that the assailants targeted the sub-station and the victim was shot in the back and died.

Kambale Muhindo Jean-de-Dieu indicates that he would have been the target of the enemy but that he would rather have been confused. However, he announces that 3 women of those who are suspected in this drama are already in the hands of  security.

“At around 8:20 pm, we had just dispatched a team for the patrol. We heard gunshots. I'm the one they were looking for, they shot the victim because they thought it was me. He was shot in the back. But, we have captured the women of those we suspect, ”explains Deputy Commissioner Kambale Muhindo Jean-de-Dieu, reassuring that investigations will continue to clarify this issue.

Puguzi's funeral is scheduled for the same Friday in Kibabi, the same source reports.

A coalition of More than 65 indigenous armed groups to participate in a dialogue to bring peace in South kivu

 

A Coalition of the Forces of Patriots for the Defense of Congo (FPDC), which brings together more than 65 indigenous armed groups operating in eastern DRC, says it is ready to participate in the "cohesive leader retreat" dialogue planned in Murhesa in the South Kivu from September 14 to 16, 2020 to restore lasting peace in the east of the country.

In an address to the press last Thursday, Samy B'aasane Mwenemwenyi, president of this coalition, invites the regular army to cease fire to facilitate the movement of representatives of armed groups to the place of dialogue.

"On behalf of the coalition, we ask the FARDC to observe a ceasefire so that we have free movement from our bases to the place where we are called. We want to show the entire Congolese community and international that we want peace. We also want to evaluate the agreements of the dialogue of last December ", he declared.

He informs that only the Congolese government has not respected its commitments signed at the end of the retreat of December 2019. The president of this coalition cites in particular the non-release until this day of all elements of armed groups detained in prisons.

The Trade Facilitation Project in the Great Lakes Region (PFCGL) launched on Wednesday September 09, 2020, training courses for the Associations of Cross-Border Traders (ACT) and Small Cross-Border Traders (PCT) with a view to their professionalization in the opting to increase their income,Bunagana inclusive in this program.

 

According to Jean Philippe Mukuaki, specialist in the private sector and promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises who presented this project to the press, it is the ACT and PCT of the border posts of Goma, Kasindi, Bunagana (North Kivu) and Bukavu ( South Kivu) which are targeted by these training courses which will last for 4 months.

"We expect professionalization and legalization from these ACTs and PCTs with the implementation of tools that will allow them to work on good practical bases with the impact of improving their income", declared Jean Philippe, also consultant at the FORHOM office.

Training sessions for trainers are planned with a view to providing them with the tools, particularly in terms of the capacity to develop partnerships and strengthen communication plans.

As a reminder, during this year 2020, as part of the improvement of the working conditions of Small Cross-border Traders, the PFCGL has also provided them with tricycle motorcycles, installed giant screens at the various border posts to raise awareness on the rights and duties of migrants as well as the fight against the coronavirus. Thermal cameras have also been installed for disease surveillance and the construction of modern toilets at the small DRC-Rwanda barrier in Goma.

Head of State Tshesekedi orders all miltary services to go to Ituri after ADF killing many people

 

The Governor of Ituri Province deplores the killing of ′′ more than 25 people. Bodies are being found. There are several people who have been beheaded. This is unfortunate ".

On Top Congo, Jean Bamanisa announces that ′′ Services are going around the areas that have been heavily attacked ".

He also reveals that ′′ we are leaving, after the meeting we had with the 0Supreme Commander. Head of State orders all services to go to Ituri. Armed Forces, Police and all security services are off to Ituri ".

Jean Bamanisa also reports that the Head of State will receive ′′ the Minister of Defense and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior and Security ".

These massacres were perpetrated far from the ′′ Operations Centre in Beni Where (these rebels) operated is around Chadi. We're having road difficulties over there. It's a forest where people live ".

The President of the Civil Society of Ituri spoke of ′′ 35 civilians killed, population in disbandment and an ongoing raking operation ".

The Governor takes this opportunity to deny the information that ′′ more than 400 FARDC soldiers drop their weapons to their Officers for lack of food ".

For him, ′′ there is an operation on the identification of military and police officers. That's all that's done ".

Allied democratic forces, the ADF are an Ugandan armed group bringing together opposition movements to Presiden Yoweri Museveni, founded in 1995.

′′ This morning, ADF rebels killed more than 35 people at Banyali Shabi's chiefdom in Irumu territory in Ituri province ", says the President of Civil Society.

Jean-Bosco Lalo says that ′′ this balance sheet proves to be provisional. We're still waiting maybe we'll discover more bodies ".

Débandade

′′ The population is disgusted. The elements of the FARDC that were at the front line continue to rake. We'll wait for the final result of their actions against ADF at the end of the day ".

Jean-Bosco Lalo says that ' ' ' So far no communication is made on the FARDC side on the balance sheet ".

Allied democratic forces, the ADF are an Ugandan armed group bringing together opposition movements to fight against Presiden Yoweri Museveni, founded in 1995.

Several houses burnt and people are without shelter in minembwe

 

Several houses were set on fire and cows swept away in an incursion by Mayi-Mayi elements last Tuesday in more than 5 villages of Minembwe in the territory of Fizi, in South Kivu. According to Gady Mukiza, bourgmestre of the rural commune of Minembwe, the villages of Kawela, Masha, Kabingo, Irumba and Kakangara were simultaneously attacked. He indicates that several people fled their homes following this rebel incursion. "The 4 axes which bring together these villages were attacked. The village of kawela was destroyed and cows carried away. Several households have fled and are now spending the night without shelter. I sent a team to the places where these families went to identify and assess humanitarian needs, "he said on Thursday, September 10, 2020. In addition, Rubibi Ruvuzangoma, president of the civil society of Minembwe indicates that several people have were also killed during this incursion, and the toll is difficult to establish for the moment. He informs that hundreds of the cows have been looted. It should be remembered that it is now more than 2 months that attacks by armed groups have been reported in Minembwe in the highlands of Fizi and also in Mwenga.