The development follows the arrest of leaders of militias, Laforge Fils Bazeye and Lieutenant-Colonel Theophile Abega of FDLR and RNC led by Kayumba Nyamwasa that were caught as they returned from Uganda where they mastermind their attacks from. <\/p>\n
A report from MONUSCO released in December 2018 indicates that RNC led by Kayumba which operates on the southern Kivu intends to attack Rwanda. <\/p>\n
Crispin Atama Tabe the DRC Minister of Defense on 18th of January this year wrote to MONUSCO asking for their intervention in stopping the activities of FDLR on the DRC territory. <\/p>\n
\u201cDRC is strongly opposed to insurgents using its territory to disturb the peace in any neighboring country. I am asking the MONUSCO to help DRC army (FARDC) in stopping any possible attack planned by FDLR fighters,\u201d said Crispin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Director-General of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) Leila Zerrougui has said that she has talked to the government of Rwanda on the actions of the DRC-based military outfits that are planning to have an incursion on Rwanda\u2019s territory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[214],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-bonita-brigitte-umurungi"],"bylines":[{"id":214,"name":"Bonita Brigitte Umurungi","slug":"bonita-brigitte-umurungi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":39}],"contributors":[{"id":214,"name":"Bonita Brigitte Umurungi","slug":"bonita-brigitte-umurungi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":39}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38821"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38821"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}