CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN Weekly Round-up 43
DRC: "New" rebel group operating in northeast
A "new" rebel group, Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Nationale
(RCD-N), led by Rogers Lumbala, is reportedly operating in Bafwasende,
northeast of Kisangani. According to RCD-ML spokesman, Jean-Ernest Louis
Kayiviro, Lumbala and his group "are corrupting and destroying the name of
the RCD-ML". "Lumbala was originally a member of RCD-Goma, but he cheated
us that he had joined our movement," Kayiviro told IRIN. "We deployed him
as our mobilisation officer in the Kisangani area," he said. "Little did
we know that he was only interested in dealing in diamonds," he added.
Lumbala reportedly garnered the support of some UPDF soldiers and they
have been "harassing, killing and looting from the local community in the
area".
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