The main threat to the transition timetable which is supposed to lead to national elections next November comes from Palipehutu-FNL led by Agathon Rwasa...
Meanwhile the main faction of Palipehutu-FNL led by Agathon Rwasa has publicly stated that it will never negotiate with Ndayizeye whom it calls an irrelevant puppet of the Tutsi...
Agathon Rwasa's FNL still refuses to sign a peace deal...
This week in South Africa it was due to start ceasefire negotiations with Agathon Rwasa's rebel Forces Nationales de Libération who have agreed to talk under pressure from the United States and from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni credited with much of the progress so far...
Both militias the - Front National de Libération (FNL) of Agathon Rwasa and the faction of the Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (FDD) led by Jean-Pierre Nkurunziza have recently attacked the capital Bujumbura...
A rival armed rebel movement the Forces Nationales pour la Libération (FNL) broke away from Palipehutu some years ago and split again in February when its chief Kabura Kossan was replaced by a senior military commander Agathon Rwasa who as usual accused him of failing to organise a congress making the movement a 'family business' and indulging in regional favouritism...