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RDC: Gen. Ntaganda is only a pawn in a wider game.

Joseph Rwagatare

07/05/12

 

When strangers wail louder than the bereaved, you must be on your guard. Something is not quite right. They are hiding something, probably some involvement in the cause of the bereavement. Or they are plotting something sinister against the grieving people or their neighbours.

The wailing is very often unnaturally loud that it must surely be contrived. Other times it is so vicious you can’t distinguish between the loud cries and baying for blood.

This seems to have been the case in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the last several weeks.

 
RDC: Kinshasa impose une nouvelle guerre face à la revendication des mutins du Kivu.

El Memeyi Murangwa

07/05/12

makenga_sultani.jpgContrairement aux déclarations rusées du général FARDC, Didier Etumba, de suspendre les opérations militaires contre la mutinerie, Joseph Kabila est décidé à en découdre avec les mutins qui en majorité sont des ex-militaires du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple, mouvement politico-militaire qui dans un récent passé n’a cessé de donner du fil à retordre à la garde prétorienne de Kabila présentée au front comme l’armée de la république.

 
RDC: 80 nouvelles défections de soldats ex-rebelles, dont un proche de Ntaganda.

AFP

04/5/12

 

GOMA (RDCongo) - Environ 80 soldats de l'armée congolaise ont fait défection jeudi dans l'est de la RDC, dont le colonel Sultani Makenga, qui fut adjoint du général Bosco Ntaganda dans l'ex-rébellion du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), a-t-on appris de source militaire.

Le colonel Makenga et le lieutenant-colonel Masozera ont fait défection dans la nuit de jeudi avec leurs hommes, dans la ville de Goma, capitale de la province instable du Nord-Kivu (est) frontalière avec le Rwanda, a déclaré à l'AFP un commandant des Forces armées (FARDC).

Nous avons récupéré 80 tenues avec bottines dans le cimetière du quartier Bujovu, a indiqué cette source, qui a requis l'anonymat.

Le général Ntaganda était numéro 2 du CNDP, et le colonel Makenga était son adjoint dans cette rébellion intégrée en 2009 dans l'armée.

 
RDC: L’irresponsabilité du gouvernement central à la base de l’insécurité grandissante au Kivu.

El Memeyi Murangwa

5/03/12

fardc.jpgDe par la volonté des dirigeants irresponsables, le Kivu est entrain de vivre une situation de plus confuse engendrée par le non-paiement de la solde aux militaires et le non-respect des engagements exprimés à travers le communiqué rendu public le 16 janvier 2009 et  l’accord politique signé à Goma le 23 mars 2009. Le processus de paix semble revenir à la case départ,  et cette fois ci l’agresseur n’est autre que l’Agent payeur (Gouvernement).

Une armée chosifiée

L’armée nationale de la RDC, connue sous le diminutif «  FARDC » jadis fierté de l’Afrique Centrale se trouve être la plus misérable du continent africain.  Réduite en une bande des pilleurs et violeurs attitrés, les militaires congolais vivent sur le dos d’une population paupérisée par une classe dirigeante préoccupée plus à mener une vie ostentatoire avec les revenus de l’Etat. 

 
Congo's 'Terminator': Kabila calls for Ntaganda arrest.

BBC

4/11/12

 

bosco_ntaganda.jpgPresident Joseph Kabila has said ex-rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, must be arrested.

But Gen Ntaganda must be tried in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president says.  Mr Kabila had previously refused to call for the arrest of the man known locally as "The Terminator".

 
Rwanda’s Methane Gas dream realised. Print

By Edwin Musoni

11/08/08

 

rwandas_methane_gas.jpgRUBAVU - Finally, Rwanda’s dream of generating electricity out of methane gas has been realised with the first 1.8megawatts channelled to the national grid. So far, the power extracted from Lake Kivu can supply the whole of Rubavu District or more.

“This is a memorable day in the history of this country; we have finally succeeded in extracting methane gas that has been in this lake for thousands of years and today Rwandans are consuming electricity generated from it,” State Minister for Energy Eng. Albert Butare said excitedly at the mini-launch of the pilot methane gas plant in Rubavu district.

He revealed that the Government was in the process of signing several agreements with foreign and local investors to extract the gas.

Butare also said the history behind the idea of extracting the gas, saying that it was championed by President Paul Kagame in 2002 when he instructed the extraction of the ‘very valuable and useful’ gas.

He explained that several procedures were followed until June last year when the final operation of setting up the extraction plant kicked off.

“That is when we signed the agreement with an Israeli company that started working on the progress of the project. On May 15 this year, we successfully extracted the first gas from the lake,” he explained.

Butare added that in May, the extracted gas was not very clean by international standards because of the machines that were being used, “but still, it was a credit worthy celebration.”

He added that some people thought Rwanda’s methane gas extraction would affect the lake “but we did it and maintained the safety of the lake as well.”

Related to the above, Butare revealed that there is an American investor who has finalised getting the necessary requirements, including environmental impact assessment, allowing him to extract about 100 megawatts.

Meanwhile, government has established a group of experts to monitor the generation of gas in the lake.  According to Butare, the same team will monitor the different companies that will be involved in extracting the gas.

The Director General of Electrogaz, a public utility for production, transmission and distribution of Water and Electricity in Rwanda, John Mirenge, confirmed that the electricity generated from Methane gas had been channelled to the company’s electricity network.

“Very important to note is that electricity costs will automatically fall after a fully fledged project comes to life,” Mirenge said.

 

 

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