In North Kivu and Ituri, the Congolese intelligence services, army and Wazalendo militias have been carrying out raids on Maasai itinerant vendors. One vendor was burned alive in public on 2 September.
Investigation
In exile, former Rwandan presidential family members remains more influential than they would like to appear
While the mayor and bishop of Orléans refused to bury Protais Zigiranyirazo, who is suspected of masterminding the wheeler-dealer circle that promoted the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, and while two investigating judges are attempting to clear former first lady Agathe Kanziga, who is also suspected of belonging to this circle, African Facts investigated the survival of this network.
Pogroms: at least four cases of anthropophagy documented in eastern DRC over the past three years
For several years, a wave of racist persecutions has affected a part of the Rwandophone minority in the Democratic Republic of Congo. African Facts has investigated several cases of lynching that were followed by acts of anthropophagy.
Former Rwandan presidential family’s shadow over Congolese conflict
While the role and importance of Rwandan génocidaires and their ideas in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are increasingly being relativised and downplayed, African Facts reveals the links between Rwanda’s former presidential family and various armed actors, including the FDLR, the FLN, and a Congolese general who coordinates the Wazalendo militias.
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