Mbusa Nyamwisi

Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi tried to contact the FDLR leadership about talks in Kisangani...

After this Rwandan and Congolese foreign ministers met in Nairobi on 10-11 November: Ministers Mbusa Nyamwisi for Congo and Charles Murigande for Rwanda agreed terms for fresh operations to deal with the FDLR rebels...

Power has now shifted northwards towards Beni the stronghold of the Nandi people and of regional politician Mbusa Nyamwisi who is Paluku's political godfather...

Another is the warlord now Foreign Minister Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi former leader of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Kisangani/Mouvement de Libération militia (backed by Uganda) and now head of the Forces du Renouveau...

This is complicated by new charges from a senior UN official in Bukavu that thousands of Rwandan troops had secretly crossed into Congo north of the Goma border and that Rwandan soldiers have still not withdrawn from Kanyabayonga where they clashed with Kinshasa-backed fighters loyal to Minister for Regional Development Mbusa Nyamwisi...

Militia commanders appointed include Jean-Pierre Ondekane (RCD-Goma Defence Minister) Roger Lumbala (RCD-National at Foreign Trade); and Enoch Mbusa Nyamwisi (RCD-Mouvement de Libération Regional Cooperation)...

On 17 June a commission representing the parties to the inter-Congolese dialogue chaired by Kabila himself approved lists of members of parliament and senators submitted by Enoch Mbusa Nyamwisi's RCD-ML by Roger Lumbala's RCD-National and by civil society groups...

This coincides with worsening fighting in Kivu-Nord where RCD-Goma forces appear to be heading for Beni to attack Mbusa Nyamwisi's RCD-ML and government troops...

Mbusa Nyamwisi head of RCD-Mouvement de Libération is heading towards Bunia from his Beni base backed by troops from Kinshasa's Forces Armées Congolaises...

Currently Rwanda and the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (RCD-Goma) train and supply Thomas Lubanga's Union des Patriotes Congolaises (UPC) the Kinshasa government supplies Mbusa Nyamwisi's RCD-Mouvement de Libération (RCD-ML) based in Beni and the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) backs the other main Ituri militia such as the Front pour l'Intégration et la Paix en Ituri...