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Tshisekedi has reportedly approved plans to continue supporting the FDLR and integrate its fighters with Wazalendo militias.
He has also reportedly approved military plans aimed at facilitating FDLR infiltration into Rwanda’s Musanze and Rubavu districts.
How did we get here?
Reliable sources say that in early June, Col. Christopher Mukubwa Buli, who serves under the Military House (Maison Militaire) of the DRC Presidency – a specialized advisory body – and coordinates Wazalendo militias in Grand-Nord, North Kivu Province, convened a series of meetings at the Congolese army’s Pinga-axis headquarters in Walikale Territory.
Those who attended included commanders from FARDC, FDLR, and anti-Rwanda organizations led by Fabien Singaye, the son-in-law of Félicien Kabuga – a Rwandan businessman and génocidaire who played a major role financing the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
According to sources, the meetings discussed, among other issues, the integration of FDLR fighters into Wazalendo militias to conceal FDLR troop numbers and shield militia commanders should the US pressure Kinshasa to honor the Washington Accords.
The meetings also assessed FDLR performance on the front lines and approved preparations for its combatants to receive training in Congolese national training centers and abroad.
Above all, discussions focused on sustaining FDLR forces near Rwanda’s border and reviving incursions into Rubavu and Musanze districts in northwestern Rwanda. Rubavu especially suffered heavy shelling by FARDC and its allies in January 2025 amid fierce fighting with AFC/M23 rebels over Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, leaving 16 Rwandan civilians dead and 177 injured.
Since the late 1990s, FDLR launched more than 20 attacks on Rwandan territory with support from successive regimes in Kinshasa, killing civilians in the country’s northwestern region.
Several sources confirmed that participants in the meetings aimed at planning FDLR attacks on Rwanda included Col. Franck Mutunda Kapamba, the Director of Intelligence under FARDC’s 34th Military Region, and Col. Solomon Tokolonga, the Commander of the 3402 Region and acting commander of the Pinga-axis, an area that includes parts of Walikale Territory, Masisi Territory, and parts of Lubero Territory.
These are the same FARDC officers who facilitated the delivery of more than three tons of ammunition and other forms of support to FDLR and allied militias in eastern DRC in January.
According to sources, Brig. Gen. Bernard Hitimana, alias Mutunzi, the commander of FDLR’s military academy, and Col. Pierre Célestin Rurakabije, alias Guillaume Simba, the commander of FDLR’s special forces unit known as Commando de Recherche et d’Action en Profondeur (CRAP), also attended the June meetings.
All reports from these meetings were approved by Tshisekedi yesterday he also informed Ndayishimiye about his FDLR plans.
Kigali has long identified FDLR as its principal security concern emanating from eastern DRC, a threat that has, over time, compelled Rwanda to adopt defensive measures along its borders.
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