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A SADC delegation has been staying since Wednesday, July 22 in Moliro, located more than 350 km south-east of Moba (Tanganyika). This delegation, composed of 15 members including civilian and military experts, will remain there for a week to resolve the crisis at the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, according to the leader of the Moliro Grouping, in Moba territory ... These experts who received the logistical support of Monusco, transited to Lubumbashi and spent the night of Tuesday, 21 July in Kalemie to leave the next day on Moliro. The SADC Mission will have to visit Kibanga, Kalubamba, Moliro and Pweto, 4 localities on the Congolese side and Tshibanga, Tshimpunda and Musosa, 3 other localities on the Zambian side. The SADC Delegation is coming to settle the crisis that broke out in March 2020 between the DRC and Zambia at the border of Moliro. Both countries have managed to deploy men and military equipment to the ready-to-go area.

For him, there has never been a clash between FARDC and M23 in the Rutshuru. He accuses FARDC of taking summation shots to deter a potential enemy after fear ′′ made on social media ". ′′ Our ex-fighters are indeed in Rutshuru territory. Not to fight anyone less yet their FARDC brothers ", says Bertrand Bisimwa. The President of the Movement of March 23 (M23), Bertrand Bisimwa announces it as several sources report clashes between its elements and FARDC in two territories in North Kivu. According to Bertrand Bisimwa, if the M23 are in Rutshuru, it is because, first it is their country, then they are waiting like everyone else for the implementation of the peace agreements signed in Nairobi on 12 December 2013. For him, there has never been a clutch between FARDC and M23 in the Rutshuru. He accuses FARDC of taking summation shots to deter a potential enemy after fear ′′ made on social media ". ′′ Ex-M23 fighters have never taken any combat initiative and will not...

The provincial coordination of civil society in North Kivu, in an interview this Wednesday, July 22, 2020, alerted to the reorganization of the rebellion of the movement of March 23 (M23) in the territories of Rutshuru and Nyiragongo, located in the northern part of Goma city. Edgar Katembo Mateso, first Vice-President of the coordination, explains that the presence of this rebellion has been reported in these regions for almost a week. He also claims that belligerents are becoming increasingly threatening. ′′ It has been a week that we have been getting alerts from Rutshuru and Nyiragongo on a possible March 23 movement reorganization (M23), and that this movement is starting to be threatening, while maintaining its action on ADF in Beni and Ituri ", he said. Last Tuesday, the Kivu Security Barometer (KST) reported an attack by alleged M23 rebels against a position of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in the village Binkenk...

Codeco militia have occupied several groups in the Mukambo chiefdom (Mahagi territory). This is the Tuesday, July 21th alert from local civil society. According to the same source, this occupation dates back to several months and allowed militia to develop commercial activities in the region. The militias, civil society, have established a chain for the production and sale of palm oil and woods to ensure their care. ′′ We are deploring this gravity of things. Codeco militia have done everything to occupy the Masongwa, Are, Ruvinga and Muswa groups with a well-defined mission of producing palm oil and wood. They are now carrying out these activities calmly in the locality of Kasingwa ", said, Solomon Unega, president of civil society of Mukambo Chiefdom. The sale of the products exploited would take place in some shopping centres in the Djugu territory, including Kpandroma but also in Uganda via Lake Albert. ′′ At the moment, they have accomplices who come ...

Ituri province recorded on Tuesday, July 22, 2020 four new positive cases of Coronavirus, says the report of the technical secretariat for the fight against the pandemic reached   scores Which brings the number of patients to 32 in this province, the city Bunia being the most affected with more than twenty confirmed cases, followed by the territories of Mahagi and Aru. Yet the day before, the Congolese Head of State Félix Tshisekedi announced the lifting of the state of health emergency decreed last March, which implies the resumption of several socio-economic activities which had previously been stopped. Schools and universities should open their doors by the beginning of August, while the contamination rate is only climbing in this province, fear specialists. Provincial authorities have made it compulsory to wear masks in public places, but other measures to protect the population from contamination should be considered

The Congolese Prime Minister claims that the presidential orders dealing with army reorganizations, including the elimination of General John Numbi, should have been co-signed by him. A new rise of tension within the ruling coalition. Sylvestre Ilunga asked for a meeting with Félix Tshisekedi on Tuesday to ′′ clarify ′′ what he describes as a ′′ situation of concern ". The Congolese Prime Minister says in a statement to have read ′′ to his surprise ′′ the presidential orders on the Army appointments released on Friday. The head of government, who was on the move to Lubumbashi on that day, explains that these orders were countersigned by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, who was acting on his interim basis, while this ′′ falls under the control of the exclusive competence attached to the Prime Minister's quality ". Iron arm FCC-Cach Sylvestre Ilunga also insists that his counterseing is ′′ a guarantee of the balance of p...

DRS Sustainment Systems has won an almost $190 million US Army contract to manufacture the mobile integrated defeat system to guard ground forces against drone attacks, the Department of Defence announced in a press release. "DRS Sustainment Systems [of] St. Louis, Missouri, was awarded a $189,828,895 ... contract for development, production, deployment and support of the Mobile-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System", the release said on Monday. The Defence Department said work on the contract is scheduled to last for five years, with an estimated completion date of 30 July 2025. At a US Navy surface warfare conference in January, Northrup Grumman engineer Kevin Knowles said his company was working on an airburst round compatible with certain US Navy surface ships’ 30-millimeter deck to develop new World War II-style 'flak' cannons to defend against swarming drone attacks with exploding shells ripping them with shrapnel steel. Leonard...