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Speaker 1: M twenty three rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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early this year advanced and since the town of Massisi.

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Same period, the Congolse government sent one hundred and seventy

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two death row prisoners to executioners, with one hundred and

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two already confirmed executed, while the government kept home on

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the third batch of seventy prisoners, including the May nineteen,

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twenty twenty four thirty seven couplotters who were convicted and

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sentenced to death in September twenty twenty four, just as

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the country Minister of Justice, Constant Mutantbar threatened journalists with

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death penalty in to relate the activities of armed group

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he described as Rwanda Army and its M twenty three auxiliaries.

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On Sunday, Al Jazeira reported that the M twenty three

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rebels and the Congolese army are still in heavy gone

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battle in Massissi since the rebel group took control of

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the town more than a week ago. Al Jazeira report

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on Sonia contradicted the state lands issue three days ago

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by the Congolese Minister of Justice Constant Mutant Bad. The

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Congolese army and the pro government rebels have recaptured the

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town of Massisi from the M twenty three rebels. On

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his ex social media handled three days ago, the Congo

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Justice Minister Constance Mutant but tweeted in a French language,

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as translated by Google, to state that Bravo to our

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armed forces of Democratic Republic of Congo FARGC and rebel

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group fighting together with Congong military against M twenty three

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was alendo for the recapture of Massisi. The enemy is

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in this array. Any political acto, civil society, journalist, religious

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who relays the activities of the Rwandan army and its

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M twenty three auxiliaries will now suffer the full force

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of the law death penalty. Our territorial integrity is not

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of for sale. It would be recalled that thirty seven

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alleged coup plotters, including three Americans, were convicted and sentenced

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to death in September twenty four by a Kinshasa military

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court in the trial against the film Coup of May nineteen,

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twenty twenty four in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC.

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Thirty one people were tried by the military court in Kinshasa,

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the capital of DRC, with the hearings broadcast on national television.

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The three Americans sentenced to death were convicted for the

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offenses of criminal association, attack and terrorism, including Masel Malanga,

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son of Christian Malanga, the alleged leader of the attempted coup.

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Dlc Army stated that an attempted coup led by little

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known opponent Christian malangaards named in the board airing May nineteen,

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twenty twenty four, Six people, including Christian Malanga himself, were killed.

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The purchas attacked the residents of Vital Camery, then Deputy

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Prime Minister, before intruding the Parliad day La Nation, where

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the offices of the RC President Felix Tcherzecidy are located.

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Videos posted online showed the attackers dressed in military uniforms

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and displaying the Zaia flag. Claimed in the video that

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they wanted to change things in the management of the

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Republic Zaiah, Officially, the Republic of Zaia, was the name

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of the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC from nineteen seventeen

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one to nineteen ninety seven. Kristian Malanga formed the United

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Congolice Party in twenty ten and advocated for the return

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of Zaia. In twenty seventeen, he created a government in

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exile in Brussels, Benjium, giving birth to the so called

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New Zaia. Marsel Malanga, who was born in Utah, United States,

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and two other Americans stood trial and they were sentenced

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to death. M twenty three rebels, our group the Government

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of Theocratic Republic of Congo, claimed is allegedly supported by Rwanda,

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have taken control of Masisi, a key town in eastern Congo,

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exacerbating the region’s ongoing humanitarian crisis. The town is estimated

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to be home to around forty thousand people and it

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is agricultural and mineral rich area located in North Kyebo Province.

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Local observers said that the culture follows the breakdown of

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Angola mediated peace talks between Congolese President Felix Tischi security

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and Ruandan President Paul Kagame in December twenty twenty four,

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while the M twenty three rebels fighting has built more tension.

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The Congolese government says it has executed one hundred and

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two men in the past week, with plans to execute

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seventy more constant mutember The country’s Minister of Justice stated

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in a statement that forty five were killed in late

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December twenty twenty four, with fifty seve several executed. In

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early January twenty twenty five. He sent the men aged

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eighteen to thirty five where armed robbers end or band

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bandits known locally as cooliners. Newtamber added that the executions

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took place at Engender prison in northwest Congo. A video

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posted online showed a flight of seventy more people arrived

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at Engender both The government is yet to comment on

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the status of the prisoners. Newtember, who is overseeing the executions,

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said the tal Bach will be executed, so the first

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two have already undergone the measure of execution by the

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death penalty. While some have welcomed the government’s decision to

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execute the prisoners as a means of restoring order and

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security in the cities, others are concerned about the risks

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of abuse and human rights violations. It may be remembered

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that Congo abolished the death penalty in nineteen eighty one,

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but it was raised in two thousand and six. The

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last execution took place in two thousand and three. In

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March twenty twenty four, the Congoese government announced the resumption

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of capital executions the reinstated death penalty was intended for

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military personnel accused of treason, according to close watchers. Amnesty International,

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while condemning the execution of the prisoners, issued a press

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statement and stated that President Tischi seconding must hold plans

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to carry out mass executions. Responding to reports that more

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than one hundred and seventy people on the sentence of

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death have been transferred to Engender Prison for execution in

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the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional

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Director for East and Southern Africa, Sarah Jackson, said the

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announcement of these prison transfers is absolutely appalling. With fair

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eminet mass executions by the authorities amid a lack of

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reliable information about the status of people sentenced to death,

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President Felix Tach’s seconding most immediately publicly and unambiguously hold

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any plans to execute people in Angener prison or elsewhere.

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Parliament should adopt a moratorium on executions pending full abolition

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of the death penalty. With fair eminent mass executions by

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the authorities amid a lack of reliable information about the

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status of people sentenced to death, authorities must also stop

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mass transfers to remote prisons, including Engenderware. Dozens of the

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Tennese have previously died of starvation and disease. Any person

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transferred from the local area must be moved to a

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facility that can be easily reached by lawyers, relatives, and

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human rights organizations, and all should be informed of their whereabouts.

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Unlesty International added that on the fifth of January twenty

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twenty five, Assist Justice Minister Constance Mutamber announced that more

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than one hundred and seventy people allegedly linked to criminal

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guns commonly known as kulana or bandits, have been transferred

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from the capital Kinshasa to Engender Prison in Northwest d

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RS for execution. He sent those transferred to Engineer weare

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between eighteen and thirty five years old and had been

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involved in urban violence. Authorities have claimed resuming executions would

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help combat urban gangs, a claim unsupported by any evidence.

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President Felix Tach secondly, most immediately publicly and unambiguously hold

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any plans to execute people in Engineer prison or elsewhere.

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Mutamber has previously threatened people suspected of links to criminal

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gangs with arrest, conviction and the death penalty even before trial.

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In March twenty twenty four, d Assist government announced states

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would resume executions forowing a two decade highaturs. Since then,

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death sentences by military courts have sold. These sentences often

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follow on four trials, included against alleged members of criminal

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guns and armed groups unless they international opposes the death

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penalty in all cases. Justice Minister Constant Mutimber also during

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the week twitted and started in on ex social media

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HALLU that I have not given an interview to any

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media much less today up on the operations to combat

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or band banditry. Zero Coulna in Dubo that the Ministry

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of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice are conducted

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across the country. The AP dispatch revealed false information. I

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invite them to correct it. In accordance with the law

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and freedom of the praise Convols laws provide for the

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death penalty and the mechanisms for its execution. The kuluna

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of band bandits strive and sentenced to death by our

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courts were trans to high security prisons far from their

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place of arrest to serve their sentence in accordance with

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Congolesee laws. This phenomenon of a van Ganz led to

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the overthrow of the Hessian regime, probably due to the

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absence of consistent modules of repression and the suagion. We

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will show foundings against the Kulunar, who will be arrested

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and brought before the courts because the sol death and

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desolation in society. V OA Courting AP also reported that

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the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday ban Al Jazeera

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satellite news network over its interview with the leader of

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a violent rebel group that has seized territory in the

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country’s east in recent days. Separately, they are Saint Justine

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Minister threatened journalists and others who report on the M

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twenty three rebels with the death penalty, though there is

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no longer officially banning media from covering rebel groups. There

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was no immediate comment from Al Jazeera, a Pan Arab

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satellite television news network based in Doha, Qatar. According to

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DLC government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya, authorities revoked press credentials of

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Kata’s broadcaster in DRC, saying the network had interviewed they

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held of a terror organization without proper accreditation. Al Jazeera

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on Wednesday, earned an interview with bertrand Bessewir, they held

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of the M twenty three rebel movements in the eastern DRC.

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In the interview, Bisiman blamed the government in the capital

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Kinshasa for violating an August seasfire and claimed that M

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twenty three is waging an existential war. M twenty three

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is the most prominent of more than one hundred armed

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groups active in the mineral rich area near the DRC

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border with Rwanda, where more than one million people were

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displaced by fighting last year. A decade ago, the group

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says the borders city of Goma and in Les twenty

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twenty one captured broad smokes of territory in eastern DRC.

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Al Jazeera’s interview with Bisimwa was tantamounts to an apology

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for terrorism and totally unacceptable, Moyaya told a news conference

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origent journalists not to give the floor to terrorists as

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earlier d are since Justice Minister Constant Mutantbus said on

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the social media platform x that anyone who reports on

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the activities of the London Army and its M twenty

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three auxiliaries will now suffer the full force of the

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law death penalty. The Great Left Albia also analyzed the

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significance of the M twenty three control of Marsisi and

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its consequences to the Congolese army, as reported Weberton Belu

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the first weekend of twenty twenty five, so M twenty

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three sees two more towns in North Kievo Province. Marsisi’s

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Center and Loschevy were taken by the rebels utter heavy

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clashes with the co Golie Army. Coalition. Analysts say that

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one of the towns means a lot in the escalating

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armed conflict. Populated with about forty thousand residents, Massisis Center

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is the capital of Massisi Territory. It is about eighty

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kilometers north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu. Given

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its geographical location, Massisis Center has been a supply area

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for the Congolese Army coalition. Their logistics, foodstuffs and Amyanisians

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were centered before the wed distributed to different basis. By

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capturing Massissis Center, M twenty three rebels have cut off

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supplies to the vast Congolese Ami coalitional forces. They are

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likely to withdraw as they can’t stay in the oppositions

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while supplies cannot reach them. Sat, a security analyst and

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journalist based in Goma. Security analysts predict that the rebels

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are likely to move forward to Lodically, an area that

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has been stronghold of the FDLR genocidal militia, which KINSHASA

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treats as a reliable fighting force against M twenty three.

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Despite support from the Burundian Army, SADC troops, Eastern European marcenaries,

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American private military companies and FDLR, the Congolese army failed

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to push back M twenty three since its resurgence. In

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late twenty twenty one, Cossard greenin Uknese in a mortgages

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away