Monitoring the FDLR in Eastern DR Congo

Independent field reporting, open-source analysis, and documentation of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda — its operations, financing, and impact on civilian populations across eastern DRC.

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Investigative Reports

Ongoing Field Investigations

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Proxy Architecture

FDLR: From Genocide Perpetrator to State-Integrated Frontline Force

How a sanctioned genocidal militia became the DRC's primary proxy army in the Kivus, and why it remains Rwanda's non-negotiable existential red line.

29 June 2026

MILITARY / TIMELINE

Timeline of FARDC resupply and combat with FDLR & allied groups

November 2025 to March 2026

20 March 2026

MILITARY + POLITICAL PATTERN

DRC Support to FDLR: The Evidence

Weapons support, battlefield coordination, deployments, and political backing from late 2025 through early 2026.

12 March 2026

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Latest Reports

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Analysis

The FDLR: a second generation raised on genocide

11 June 2026

Analysis

Equal Sanctions, Unequal Threats

10 June 2026

Brigadier General Bruno Mpezo Mbele, commander of the 34th Military Region in North Kivu, was arrested and is being prosecuted over collaborating with the FDLR..

Leadership

Gen. Bruno Mpezo: FARDC–FDLR collusion at command level in North Kivu

12 May 2026

Major General Peter Cirimwami Nkuba, former governor of North Kivu Province, who served as a liaison between Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi and the FDLR.

FDLR

General peter cirimwami: the bridge between kinshasa and the FDLR

12 May 2026

In June 2024, Jean-Luc Habyarimana arrives at the National Museum of the DRC

Regional Analysis

Tshisekedi's government and the architecture of anti-rwanda mobilization

12 May 2026

FDLR

The FDLR: It's origins and evolution since the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

12 May 2026

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