[RwandaLibre] Kagame: "...dissidents in Rwanda are attempting to start a new war in central Africa!"

Congo: Bloody Katanga, Again

January 14, 2014: The UN is urging the Congolese government to address
land disputes in North and South Kivu provinces (eastern Congo).
Outside groups have provided rebel groups in the eastern Congo with
money and weapons in exchange for access to gold and other valuable
minerals (coltan, for example). However, a recent study showed that
land disputes between neighboring tribes remains a major cause of
conflict in the region. Weak and corrupt government institutions
exacerbate the situation. Disputes escalate into violent
confrontations and then all out battles between tribal militias
because no one trusts the justice system to be fair. The system is
either regarded as being corrupt or, in many places, it does not
exist. There is no centralized system for registering land ownership
or recognizing land use rights. This is a common cause for unrest and
poverty in many countries.

January 13, 2014: Rwanda claims that political opponents and
dissidents in Rwanda are attempting to start a new war in central
Africa. This followed a South African police report which concluded
that former Rwandan Army colonel Patrick Karegeya was murdered on
January 2 by strangulation (a curtain cord around his neck). At one
time Rwanda accused Karegeya of planning grenade attacks in Rwanda's
capital, Kigali.

January 12, 2014: Congolese national park rangers in Virunga National
Park fought with a group of Rwandan FDLR (Hutu Democratic Forces for
the Liberations of Rwanda) rebels. One ranger and three rebels died in
the engagementand two rangers were wounded. One rebel was captured
after the firefight. Park authorities claimed that the rebels attacked
the park ranger force. The rangers have been trying to deny rebels
bases in the park and also monitor rebel movements through the park.

January 10, 2014: Michel Djotodia, former senior commander of the
Seleka rebel movement, resigned as interim president of the CAR
(Central African Republic). This caused celebrations in the streets of
the capital.

January 8, 2014: The EU (European Union) announced that may send a
joint military force to the CAR to aid peacekeeping efforts. The EU
force would be structured as a rapid deployment force with 1,000 to
1,200 soldiers (reinforced battalion task force). The unit would have
a fire support element (light artillery), a medical unit and a
transport helicopter element. EU defense ministers have agreed to make
a decision on the force by the end of this month.

January 7, 2014: In the south Congolese Army soldiers fought with Mai
Mai Kata Katanga rebels in Lubumbashi (capital of Katanga province).
At least 26 Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters were killed in a
series of firefights which went on for eight hours. The Kata Katanga
rebels entered the city during the night. The government claimed its
forces counter-attacked and the rebels retreated from the city. In
March 2013 around 200 Kata Katanga rebels raided Lumbumbashi. During
Fall 2013 the group threatened to launch another attack on the city.
Kata Katanga is Swahili and translates as Secede Katanga. The group is
sometimes referred to as the Mai Mai Gedeon (Gideon), after its leader
and senior commander, Gedeon Kyungu Mutanga. Katanga has tried to
secede from the Congo on several occasions. Minteral-rich Katanga is
by far the country's wealthiest province.

January 5, 2014: A grenade attack in a Bangui, CAR market wounded four
people. One of the wounded was a Burundian soldier serving with the
MISCA African peacekeeping force.

January 3, 2013: The UN estimated that fighting in the CAR has
displaced one million people. That is about 20 percent of the
population. Around 500,000 displaced people have collected in
makeshift refugee camps in the Bangui area.

January 2, 2014: A Congolese Army colonel leading an operation
against Ugandan Alliance of Democratic Forces and National Army for
the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) rebels was killed when his jeep
was ambushed near the town of Matembo (North Kivu province). The
rebels hit the jeep with a rocket-propelled grenade. The colonel
commanded a special operations battalion.

Former CAR president Francois Bozize denied accusations that he is
backing Christian anti-balaka (anti-machete) militia groups in the
country. Bozize was overthrown by Seleka rebels. The Seleka movement
drew its strength from predominantly Muslim tribes.

Patrick Karegeya, a former Rwandan Army colonel who once commanded the
Rwandan government's external intelligence service was found murdered
in a hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rwanda opposition
politicians accused the Rwandan president of assassinating the
colonel. Karegeya became a political opponent of the president who
fired him in 2006. Karegeya had been in exile since 2007.

December 30, 2013: The Congolese Army drove off an attack on the
airport in the capital city, Kinshasha. Rebels also fired on an army
barrack and a television station in the city. The government claimed
that around 70 followers of Katanga province religious leader Paul
Joseph Mukungubila launched the raids. Some 40 of the attackers died
in the firefights with the army. The government said the army did not
suffer any casualties. The attackers were very poorly armed.
Mukungubila's followers accuse the government of launching an illegal
attack on a church in Lubumbashi. Mukungubila fanatically opposes the
government of president Joseph Kabila. The government said
Mukungubila's supporters conducted the attacks for the sole purpose of
sowing panic in the capital.

December 28, 2013: Between December 11 and December 20, two American
C-17 transports moved 500 Burundian infantrymen from Burundi to the
CAR. The C-17s also airlifted the units' equipment, to include
several light armored personnel carriers. Security at the Bangui
airport was provided by French peacekeepers. Thousands of refugees
could be seen at the airport, some huddled within 50 meters of the
runway.

December 27, 2013: The African Union reported that six Chadian
peacekeepers were killed on December 25 in Bangui, capital of the CAR.
Another 15 Chadian soldiers were wounded. The soldiers were ambushed
in the capital's Gobongo neighborhood. One Chadian vehicle was
destroyed.

http://www.strategypage.com/%5Cqnd%5Ccongo%5Carticles%5C20140114.aspx


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