Bertrand Bisimwa

Joining them are Bertrand Bisimwa President of M23; Désiré Rukomera the group's recruitment and propaganda chief; its former Chief of Finance but recently appointed Governor of North Kivu Joseph Bahati Musanga and Deputy Chief of Finances and Production Jean-Bosco Nzabonimpa Mupenzi...

Complicating matters further the M23 delegation appeared to be represented by two different factions one led by Uganda-based Bertrand Bisimwa self-styled president of the movement and another led by Jean-Marie Runiga based in Rwanda (AC Vol 58 No 3 Kabila's co-opted cabinet)...

The M23's Ugandan-based wing led by Bertrand Bisimwa and General Sultani Makenga has been apparently involved in reconciliation talks with its Rwandan-backed wing led by Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero...

M23 is not necessarily a dead duck: in November its Chairman Bertrand Bisimwa threatened that M23 could take up arms again after complaining that he and his men had received nothing in return for stopping the war...

Some feel that Makenga will reintegrate his troops into the Forces armées de la république démocratique du Congo while others suggest that Makenga and M23 political leader Bertrand Bisimwa can stay independent of the army while not being seen as a ‘negative force’...

Instead he was assigned to a villa on the outskirts of Kigali and allowed to meet his political commissioners such as René Abandi and Bertrand Bisimwa who took care of his international donations from Masisi North Kivu...

' But Nkunda's spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa accuses the Kinshasa government of inciting dissension within the CNDP; he claimed on 12 January that Ntaganda had been in touch with some Congolese senators...

The CNDP’s spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa accuses Monuc of using force against his movement but not against the government troops that had broken ceasefire agreements...

The government refused to negotiate with the CNDP provoking an angry reaction from its spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa and criticism from several North Kivu Assembly members including Jean-Louis Ernest Kyaviro who said the people needed immediate and concrete solutions...