President Paul Kagame on Saturday, March 15, named Brigadier General Stanislas Gashugi the Commander of the Special Operations Force (SOF), replacing Maj Gen Ruki Karusisi. Gashugi, who was until then ...

The Rwandan-led forces ... and “Every M23 unit was supervised and supported by RDF special forces,” the report argued. The situation for the DRC armed forces is quickly becoming critical.

Among them were Hutu militias, including the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which began regrouping in the DRC. In response, Tutsi militias organised against these groups ...

Rwandan and Ugandan military involvement in eastern Congo could provoke the entry of other belligerent forces, said Angelo Izama, an analyst with the Uganda-based Fanaka Kwawote think tank.