UN tells DR Congo to sack 'red' generals

UN - The United Nations has given the Democratic Republic of Congo two weeks to sack two generals accused of rights violations and who were named to lead a UN-backed military operation, a senior UN official said Wednesday.


UN officials have told Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda that the two "red" generals must be replaced by February 13 or else the United Nations will withdraw its support for the operation.


"If you keep these guys, we are not going to be in a position to support you," a senior peacekeeping official said he told Tshibanda at a meeting on Friday in Addis Ababa.


"It's a decision they have to make. Otherwise, it's going to be a major obstacle," the official told reporters at UN headquarters.


The UN's 20,000-strong MONUSCO force has been working with Kinshasa on a joint military plan to drive out the Hutu rebels from the east, but in a surprise move, the army announced last week the launch of operations, without the UN troops.


The army also announced that Generals Bruno Mandevu and Sikabwe Fall would be leading the offensive, two officers that are on the UN "red" list of known rights violators.


The senior UN peacekeeping official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there had been an agreement during the months of planning with Kinshasa to pick generals who did not have a record of rights abuses such as rape and summary executions.


"At the moment when the operation was announced, we discovered the appointment of two generals who are red generals -- people who are known to us as having been heavily involved in massive violations, so that is unacceptable," said the official.


The military campaign would be aimed at driving out the FDLR rebel group, some of whom took part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda before crossing over into eastern DR Congo.


President Joseph Kabila has been under heavy international pressure to endorse the military offensive against the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda).


The UN official said that despite Kinshasa's statements about launching the operations, there appeared to be no action on the ground.


The United Nations is pushing for the disarming of dozens of rebel and splinter groups after two decades of conflict in the eastern DR Congo, much of it fueled by the lucrative trade in minerals.


Source:AFP

figganigga,

..hapa kuna mambo mawili.

..1. kuna bias ya UN dhidi ya wa-Congo. Huwa hawaweki mashinikizo kama hayo kwa askari wa Rwanda wenye tuhuma za mauaji ya kimbari. Tena askari hao wamepata kupewa nafasi ya kutumikia katika vikosi vya UN.

..2.Kabila hataki kuwapiga FDLR kwasababu walimsaidia ilipovamiwa na Rwanda. Pia Rwanda imewapa hifadhi wapiganaji wa M23, sasa Kabila naye analazimika kuwa na kundi lake linalompa leverage dhidi ya Rwanda.

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chanzo cha habari ni AFP, i wonder nani hasa kaandika hii habari.

1. "The senior UN peacekeeping official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,"
hivi toka lini UN ikatoa agizo zito kama hilo kupitia anonymous official?

2. JokaKuu ni kweli kabisa kuhusu double standards za UN. cheki huyu jamaa aliteuliwa kabisa na UN akiwa na tuhuma nzito zenye uthibitisho. Na pia kila UN ikitaka kutoa ripoti hasi kuhusu kagame, kagame anatishiaga kutoa majeshi yake kwenye operesheni za UN mfano darfur, UN badala ya kuchagua nchi nyingine yenyewe inakubali matakwa ya kagame na kuzikalia ripoti.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com...accused-of-supervising-death-squad-leaves-un/

3. Mi nadhani kama hii kauli ni kweli: "or else the United Nations will withdraw its support for the operation." basi poa, kabila anatakiwa ku-stick to his guns, ili UN wajitoe (Tanzania included), halafu FDLR wabakie kama kawa, kama ambavyo M23, Ntaganda na watuhumiwa wenzie wa mauaji ya DRC wanavyohifadhiwa Rwanda na uganda.

jMali said:

chanzo cha habari ni AFP, i wonder nani hasa kaandika hii habari.

1. "The senior UN peacekeeping official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,"
hivi toka lini UN ikatoa agizo zito kama hilo kupitia anonymous official?

2. JokaKuu ni kweli kabisa kuhusu double standards za UN. cheki huyu jamaa aliteuliwa kabisa na UN akiwa na tuhuma nzito zenye uthibitisho. Na pia kila UN ikitaka kutoa ripoti hasi kuhusu kagame, kagame anatishiaga kutoa majeshi yake kwenye operesheni za UN mfano darfur, UN badala ya kuchagua nchi nyingine yenyewe inakubali matakwa ya kagame na kuzikalia ripoti.
Rwandan General Accused of Supervising Death Squad Leaves UN | Foreign Policy Journal

3. Mi nadhani kama hii kauli ni kweli: "or else the United Nations will withdraw its support for the operation." basi poa, kabila anatakiwa ku-stick to his guns, ili UN wajitoe (Tanzania included), halafu FDLR wabakie kama kawa, kama ambavyo M23, Ntaganda na watuhumiwa wenzie wa mauaji ya DRC wanavyohifadhiwa Rwanda na uganda.

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Mkuu, mwisho wa siku Kagame atalazimishwa aongee nao.
UN siyo wajinga. Wanajua kabisa umuhimu wa ushirikishwaji wa kila nchi. Jamaa anataka kuwapush mbele wakati kawafunika macho wasione mbele kuna nini.
Hilo ni game la kitoto. Wajanja kama JK wanacheza na diplomacia mpaka wanashida.....LOL

figganigga said:

Kagame aliunda kundi la m23 ili kuwapiga FDLR sema wakapitiliza malengo yao, wakataka kutawala. FDLR wanasema wanataka mazungumzo na Rwanda kuhusu usalama wao lakini kKagame kakataa kwa madai kwamba ni watuhumiwa wa mauaji ya kimbali mwaka 1994 miaka 20 iliyopita. Wale FDLR walikua Askari wa Habyalimana aliyekufa kwenye ajali ya ndege ambayo wanasema Kagame ndo aliitungua. Kama wakiwachokoza basi Rwanda haitakua na aman nahisi kwa sababu itabidi wajichimbie kwenye mapoli ya Rwanda.

Hata hivo jana manisikia majeshi ya Kabila yameanza kuwavulumishia makombola hao waasi wa FDLR lakini UN bado haijaanza. Hiyo inaweza kuwa ni janja ya Kabila, atakua kashawahamisha sababu walimsaidia sana.

Kupigwa kwa FDLR itakua sherehe kwa Kagame.

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..asante.

..hawa M23 asili yao ni makundi ya waasi yaliyoundwa na Kagame na Museveni kumpindua Raisi Laurent Kabila[baba yake raisi wa sasa wa DRC].

..sasa kulisainiwa mkataba wa amani na makundi hayo yakashirikishwa ktk kuunda jeshi la pamoja la DRC.

..ilitegemewa kwamba baada ya kushirikishwa ktk jeshi la DRC, askari toka makundi hayo watakuwa loyal kwa taifa lao DRC, lakini hali imekuwa kinyume chake.

..kwa mfano, hawa M23 walianza uasi wao wakati kuna operation ya pamoja ya majeshi ya Rwanda na DRC kuwapiga FDLR. Kuna video imeletwa hapa na msemaji wa jeshi la Rwanda anaonekana akisema kwamba operation ya kuwapiga FDLR ilisitishwa kutokana na mapigano kati ya jeshi la DRC na M23.

..baada ya hapo kuna wachunguzi mbalimbali walikuja kubaini kwamba M23 inapata msaada wa kijeshi--vifaa na askari, toka jeshi la Rwanda. Mazingira hayo yalipelekea Kagame kupewa onyo na SADC, pamoja na serikali ya Marekani.

..Pia kuna ushahidi wa askari wa Rwanda kuuwawa na wengine kutekwa wakati wa operation ya kijeshi iliyopelekea kusambaratishwa kwa M23.

..Kuna hila, fitina, majungu, hujuma, ufisadi, udhalilishaji, unyama, na ukatili, mkubwa sana ktk mgogoro wa DRC.

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US and Rwandan researchers said Wednesday they have developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can detect HIV and syphilis from a finger prick of blood in just 15 minutes.This is the first device that replicates all the functions of a lab-based blood test, and it works by detecting markers of the infectious diseases: HIV antibody, treponemal-specific antibody for syphilis, and non-treponemal antibody for active syphilis infection.The manufacturing cost of the device is only US$34, much lower than the US$18,000 that current gold standard of diagnostics, known as the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), needs.The accessory was recently piloted by health care workers in Rwanda who used it to test blood finger-pricked from 96 patients, many of whom were women at risk for mother-to-child transmission of the sexually transmitted diseases. The health care workers were given only 30 minutes of training on the device.The researchers said that the device delivered test results displayed on the phone screen within 15 minutes and performed almost as well as the ELISA test. Nearly all patients preferred it to lab-based tests, which could take up totwo or more hours."Our work shows that a full laboratory-quality immunoassay can be run on a smartphone accessory," lead author Samuel Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the ColumbiaUniversity."This kind of capability can transform how health care services are delivered around the world," Sia said. The device, or dongle, can easily connect to a smartphone or computer. Itis small and light enough to fit into one hand and draws all the power it needs to runby plugging into a smartphone's audio jack.Researchers believed that this lab-on-a-chip device could help scale up early detection of HIV and syphilis, especially in mobile or field clinics."Our dongle presents new capabilities for a broad range of users, from health care providers to consumers," Sia said."By increasing detection of syphilis infections, we mightbe able to reduce deaths by10-fold. And ...we might be able to scale up HIV testing at the community level with immediate antiretroviral therapy that could nearly stop HIV transmissions and approach elimination of thisdevastating disease," he added.The work, also comprising researchers from Rwanda Biomedical Centre, was published in the US journal Science Translational Medicine.Source:theeastafrican

JokaKuu said:

figganigga,


..2.Kabila hataki kuwapiga FDLR kwasababu walimsaidia ilipovamiwa na
Rwanda. Pia Rwanda imewapa hifadhi wapiganaji wa M23, sasa Kabila naye
analazimika kuwa na kundi lake linalompa leverage dhidi ya Rwanda.

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Mu7=Kagame=Kabila=M23 lao moja! Kabila ni kibaraka wa Mu7 na PK hawezi kutetea FDLR!