{"id":45926,"date":"2022-06-03T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-tshisekedi-fires-senior-military-officers-accused-of-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:14:39","slug":"president-tshisekedi-fires-senior-military-officers-accused-of-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-tshisekedi-fires-senior-military-officers-accused-of-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC fires senior military officers accused of collaboration with Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacked soldiers include Lt Col Kibibi Mutware, Major Sido Bizimungu alias America, Major Aruna Bovic and Major Mundande Kitambala.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Okapi has reported that the decision taken on 26th May 2022 was announced via DRC\u2019s national broadcaster, RTNC on 2nd June 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Tension between Rwanda and DRC has been escalating following the latter\u2019s accusations that Rwanda supports M23 rebel group in clashes with Congolese Army (FARDC).    <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has categorically rejected these allegations noting that they are \u2018baseless\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rwanda accuses DRC of working with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel outfit comprised of remnant masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>The rebel group is based in eastern part of DRC where it continues terrorist activities and plans to destabilize Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>The collaboration saw FARDC and FDLR recently shelling projectiles on Rwandan territory which injured citizens and destroyed houses. <\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of last week, Congolese Army and FDLR were also reported to have kidnapped two Rwandan soldiers who were on patrol.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42543 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/atsi.jpg\" alt=\"President Tshisekedi has fired senior military officers accused of collaboration with Rwanda. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi has signed the Presidential Order dismissing four senior military officers accused of collaboration with Rwanda after days of tension between both countries.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45926","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45926"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45926"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}