In February the US Treasury added James Kabarebe Rwanda's Minister of State for Regional Integration to its Magnitsky Act sanctions list...

In September President Paul Kagame named retired general James Kabarebe the architect of many Rwandan-backed rebellions in Congo-K as minister of regional cooperation as if to ram home the point that he acts with impunity...

Anglophone commanders who revere the memory of the late great RPF leader Fred Rwigyema generals James Kabarebe Charles Kayonga Fred Ibingira and Emmanuel Ndahiro all belong to a 'Ugandan' contingent with nearly 30 years of military experience under its belt that is making way for younger Tutsi commanders born in Burundi and Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 37 No 14 The king speaks out)...

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 )...

Underlining the depth of Rwandan control of M23 the report says that Rwanda’s General James Kabarebe personally imposed Runiga on M23 as its political coordinator and ‘unilaterally appointed the members of the M23 government...

The report builds on an earlier investigation of Rwandan support for the rebels (AC Vol 53 No 13 Kigali's hand in the Kivus & US 'protecting' Rwada) but comes to firmer conclusions: it states that M23’s Congolese leaders Bosco Ntaganda and Sultani Makenga are under the direct command of Rwanda’s General Charles Kayonga answering to the Minister of Defence General James Kabarebe...

Kinshasa wants the UN Security Council to sanction Rwanda’s Defence Minister James Kabarebe Chief of Defence Staff Charles Kayonga and General Jack Nziza for their support for the rebels of the Mouvement du 23 mars in North Kivu Province...

Defence Minister General James Kabarebe gave a long interview to the veteran Belgian journalist Colette Braeckman in late August revealing that two companies of the Rwanda Defence Force were in Rutshuru conducting joint operations against the FDLR with two companies of the Congolese army the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo...

According to Michel’s document Ngoy is in hiding in Kigali under the protection of Rwandan Defence Minister James Kabarebe...

The report by a UN Panel of Experts details constant communications between two rebel leaders Jean-Bosco Ntaganda former Commander of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) and M23 leader Sultani Makenga and all Rwanda’s most senior military officers apart from President Paul Kagame: Defence Minister General James Kabarebe; the Permanent Secretary of the Defence Ministry Gen...