M23 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/m23/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 M23 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/m23/ 32 32 SA recommits to special brigade in DRC https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/sa-recommits-special-brigade-drc/ Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/sa-recommits-special-brigade-drc/ South Africa’s recommitted troops to the United Nations Special Intervention Brigade (FIB) in the DRC. The only blue-helmeted unit that has a mandate to operate aggressively to protect the civilian population has a new job in the troubled eastern part of the African giant. In 2013 South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi constitututed the special intervention […]

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]]> South Africa’s recommitted troops to the United Nations Special Intervention Brigade (FIB) in the DRC.

The only blue-helmeted unit that has a mandate to operate aggressively to protect the civilian population has a new job in the troubled eastern part of the African giant.

In 2013 South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi constitututed the special intervention brigade fighting and subduing M23 rebels in the eastern DRC.

The South African component comprised two infantry batallions and a squadron of Rooivalk attack helicopters.

They were the first to come under fire in operations that subdued M23.

Now their guns could be turned on former Hutu rebels from Rwanda hiding out in the DRC.

They failed to meet a January 2 deadline to surrender.

The UN Security Council has resolved that all necessary measures must be taken to disarm them.

 

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]]> Hutu rebels in DRC fail to meet surrender ultimatum https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/hutu-rebels-drc-fail-meet-surrender-ultimatum/ Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/01/hutu-rebels-drc-fail-meet-surrender-ultimatum/ President Jacob Zuma says Hutu rebels hiding out in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not meeting an ultimatum to surrender. So, regional leaders will meet in Angola next week to decide on what steps to take. Speaking as chairman of SADC’s defence arm, President Jacob Zuma says only 337 rebels from the Democratic Forces […]

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]]> President Jacob Zuma says Hutu rebels hiding out in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not meeting an ultimatum to surrender.

So, regional leaders will meet in Angola next week to decide on what steps to take.

Speaking as chairman of SADC’s defence arm, President Jacob Zuma says only 337 rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda known as the FDLR turned themselves in by last Friday.

That means less than a quarter have complied with the January 2 deadline set by regional leaders.
Zuma says SADC leaders will meet in Angola on January 15 and 16 to decide on how to respond.

He adds the regional body’s ready to play its fullest
part.
Fourteen months ago the Congolese army backed by UN soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi forced the surrender of M23, another rebel group in the area.

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]]> Congolese rebels flee to avoid repatriation https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congolese-rebels-flee-avoid-repatriation/ Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congolese-rebels-flee-avoid-repatriation/ Scores of Congolese rebels about to be repatriated have fled the camp where they’ve been sheltering this past year. Some of those fleeing into the surrounding mountainous bush were shot and wounded. M23 rebel leader Bertrand Bisimwa says the men fear being killed if they go home because the DRC government hasn’t honoured the terms […]

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]]> Scores of Congolese rebels about to be repatriated have fled the camp where they’ve been sheltering this past year.

Some of those fleeing into the surrounding mountainous bush were shot and wounded.

M23 rebel leader Bertrand Bisimwa says the men fear being killed if they go home because the DRC government hasn’t honoured the terms of the ceasefire signed last year.

Ugandan military officials planned to airlift hundreds of the former fighters who fled when trucks arrived to take them to an airbase.

M23 used to be the most prominent rebel group operating in eastern Congo before it was repulsed by U.N. forces fighting with the Congolese national army. More than 1 000 rebels fled to Rwanda and Uganda last year before their leaders signed a peace agreement with Congo’s government last December.

 

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