This is not just about military posturing. It’s about preventing another genocide,” Foreign Affairs minister Olivier ...

‘Maj’ Gilbert Ndayambaje, 49, one of the members of the DR Congo-based FDLR militia who were handed over to Rwandan authorities by AFC/M23 rebels on March 1, claims to have been forced into ...

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Martin Kobler, head of a nearly 20,000-strong U.N. mission in Congo (MONUSCO), said the focus would now be on the FDLR and Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

The FDLR, in one or other guise, has been at the very heart of the instability and conflict in the eastern DRC for 20 years. It was originally established by members of the Interahamwe – an ethnic ...

The FDLR claims to be an offshoot of the Rwandan people. But let us decode this: for the FDLR, like all Rwanda genocide ideologues, the "Rwandan people" means the Hutu community exclusively.

FDLR trial continues Jane Ayeko09/14/2015 The trial of former leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) Ignance Murwanashyaka and his deputy Straton Musoni is continuing ...

The FDLR illicit trade involves timber, hemp, illegal fishing, poaching and gold mining.When combined with illegal taxation, the total revenue from these sectorstotals at least $71million annually.

He said between 1,500 and 1,800 fighters are in the FDLR, the majority of whom are too young to have participated in the Rwandan genocide. “Seventy percent are young, below the age of 30.

The FDLR has been accused of recruiting child soldiers, rape and systematic looting. "It's true that not everybody in our ranks is an angel," he says calmly. "Some can engage in repressive behaviour.

In interview after interview, serving and former FDLR officials told me that he is not only the ideological and political force behind the movement, he is its supreme military commander. He is "like ...

More than 700 members of the Rwandan rebel group FDLR surrendered in the Democratic Republic of Congo during 2015, according to the United Nations. The U.N. mission in the DRC says many of those ...