Sultani Makenga

Kainerugaba meanwhile publicly praises the Congolese M23 rebel leader Sultani Makenga who Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi believes is being supported by Kagame...

In the years that followed the group's current leader Sultani Makenga then part of the faction based in Uganda prepared the group's reunification and return to Congo-K while Kigali and Kampala ignored extradition requests for him and other M23 leaders for alleged war crimes...

M23's current military leader Sultani Makenga has been perched in the Mikeno mountain range overlooking Goma all this time...

In 2012 the United Nations Group of Experts on Congo contended that he and M23 co-founder Sultani Makenga were answering to the Rwandan Minister of Defence General James Kabarebe and receiving weapons from Uganda (AC Vol 53 No 21 M23's other parent )...

Between South Kivu and the Beni area ex-M23 commander Sultani Makenga lies in wait in the Mikeno mountain range just north of Goma ready to come to the aid of militias in the area backed by Kigali if needed (AC Vol 58 No 20 Mayhem among the militias)...

In response Rwanda has allowed ex-M23 fighters under their one-time commander General Sultani Makenga to operate in the border region between North Kivu and Rwanda in the Karisimbi-Mikeno mountain range...

Uganda's menThe authorities in Kigali say that Uganda is supporting armed coalitions operating between Ituri and North Kivu including both Hema and Lendu militias in Ituri Mai Mai factions in the area around Beni and even ex-M23 elements once loyal to the movement's leader General Sultani Makenga...

Nyamwisi and some of his former acolytes are also understood to be close to ex-members of the Tutsi-led and once Rwanda-sponsored Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebel movement including the group led by General Sultani Makenga which fled to Uganda after their defeat by UN forces in 2013...

Meanwhile in North Kivu the return from Uganda of General Sultani Makenga of the Mouvement du 23 mars to Rutshuru territory in mid-January has sparked fears that just at the moment when the political process looks most fragile North Kivu may once again go up in flames (AC Vol 57 No 25 Killers crowd in)...

Sultani Makenga who had escaped from the Bihanga barracks in Uganda where M23 had been confined since its defeat in 2013 (AC Vol 54 No 16 M23 takes a hit)...