{"id":57006,"date":"2026-01-29T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/red-tabara-rejects-allegations-of-links-to-rwanda-m23-and-2015-coup-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:03:44","slug":"red-tabara-rejects-allegations-of-links-to-rwanda-m23-and-2015-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/red-tabara-rejects-allegations-of-links-to-rwanda-m23-and-2015-coup-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"RED Tabara rejects allegations of links to Rwanda, M23 and 2015 coup attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview broadcast on January 17, 2026, on the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s state television channel RTNC, President Ndayishimiye alleged that RED Tabara is being used by Rwanda as a proxy force to prepare attacks against Burundi. <\/p>\n

He claimed the group\u2019s fighters were behind the failed 2015 coup against former president Pierre Nkurunziza and that Rwanda trained them before deploying them to support AFC\/M23 operations in eastern DRC.<\/p>\n

Responding on January 29, 2026, RED Tabara spokesperson Patrick Nahimana rejected the accusations, insisting that the group has no ties with Rwanda. He pointed out that Rwanda would not have handed over RED Tabara fighters if any cooperation existed between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone closely following regional developments knows that on July 30, 2021, Rwanda handed over 19 RED Tabara fighters who had crossed into its territory and were arrested in Nyungwe Forest,\u201d Nahimana said.<\/p>\n

He also dismissed claims linking RED Tabara to the 2015 coup attempt, noting that those responsible were known members of the Burundian armed forces. <\/p>\n

According to Nahimana, RED Tabara had been in existence since early 2011 and was not involved in the events that unfolded four years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe individuals who attempted the 2015 coup are well identified and were serving Burundian soldiers at the time. Associating RED Tabara with that plot is misleading,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

RED Tabara further denied any form of cooperation with AFC\/M23, either before or during the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC. The group described President Ndayishimiye\u2019s remarks as an effort to distort facts and divert attention from its political objectives.<\/p>\n

The group reiterated that its struggle is directed against what it describes as the CNDD-FDD\u2019s undermining of the Arusha Peace Agreement, and that it seeks the establishment of a democratic system of governance in Burundi.<\/p>\n

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The RED Tabara armed group has dismissed claims by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye that it works with Rwanda, the AFC\/M23 coalition, and was involved in an attempted coup in Burundi in May 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000101246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000101246,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/red_t-e1e38.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006","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=57006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000101246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}