[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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