General Makenga, leader of the M23, : ‘Tshisekedi is a bandit’. ‘Our fight is for our survival and for the Congo’. Original in French below General Sultani Makenga, the military leader of ...

After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest ... hundreds of them to flee to Rwanda and Uganda. Makenga, a self-appointed major-general often seen wielding a herder’s staff in ...

The CNDP troops integrated into the Congolese Army, and officers were given high-ranking positions, including a position of general ... Makenga, the current military leader of the M23.

Makenga was elevated to the rank of an M23 general, then soon after, the top position. In November 2012 he led the rebels in a brutal uprising, in which they captured the city of Goma, a major ...

Its leader is General Sultani Makenga. The M23 claims to defend the interests of the Congolese Tutsi and Kinyarwanda-speaking minorities, asserting they are under severe threat from Hutu militias ...

A general view of a dismantled Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) vehicle in a street in Bukavu on February 17, 2025. [AFP] Authorities in the Democratic Republic of ...

They said: 'If you're a soldier, admit it."' Sultani Makenga, the military leader of M23, said in a recent interview that members of the Congolese army at the hospitals pretended to be patients or ...

M23 is under the military command of Sultani Makenga, a Congolese rebel who fought in Rwanda in the 1990s, joined the Congolese Army in the 2000s and then defected to join M23 in 2012. Mr. Makenga ...