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DRC
Kinshasa procures four new attack helicopters

The DRC government is continuing to beef up its military capabilities in order to deal with the M23, its latest acquisition being four MI-24s from the Chadian army. [...]

Published on 01/06/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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DRC
Agemira RDC
Amine Ahmed Idriss
Felix Tshisekedi
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Olivier Bazin
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Army combat aircraft get makeover in Georgia

A Georgian firm has been tasked with upgrading the attack capacities of six helicopters and two planes belonging to the Congolese armed forces. They should be ready for deployment against the M23 rebels as of next March.

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FARDC and its foreign and domestic allies fail to coalesce in battle against M23

Despite the support of nearly 1,000 foreign instructors, the mobilisation of armed groups and the imminent deployment of Chinese drones, Kinshasa has so far proved incapable of coordinating operations against the M23 rebels in eastern DRC.

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Goma, capital of North Kivu province, DRC, on 21 October 2023.

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Serbia's Yugoimport turns on charm offensive with Congolese securocrats

A delegation from the Serbian arms company Yugoimport visited Kinshasa in July. Taking advantage of the difficulties faced by its competitors and the favourable security situation, it made a series of proposals to modernise the army.

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Brokers vie to supply transport aircraft to Congolese army

The army high command is keen to expand its cargo plane fleet so that it can combat the M23 rebels more effectively in eastern DRC. Military equipment brokers are queuing up to do business with Kinshasa, among them the British firm Fortfield International headed by Issah Huseini.

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Kinshasa receives first batch of three Chinese attack drones

The first CH-4 combat drone system has just been delivered to the DRC by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.

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DRC, Rwanda
Paris embarrassed by presence of French veterans in eastern DRC

At least three French former officers now working in the private sector are providing logistical support to the Congolese army in the east - a source of embarrassment at the highest levels of the French state.

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Kinshasa calls on armed Chinese drones and Foreign Legion vet to take on M23 rebels

The Congolese army is struggling to contain the M23 rebel group. In seeking to reverse the balance of power, Kinshasa has bought military drones from China and hired private Romanian soldiers operating under the command of a French Foreign Legion veteran.

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CASC Rainbow CH-4, an unmanned aerial vehicle in Zhuhai, China, 8 November 2022.

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Tshisekedi weighs his military options against M23

In the conflict with the M23 rebels, the DRC president has to take into account his army's serious weaknesses and as well as the hostility of some in his entourage to Paul Kagame's regime. Although he has left the door open to mediation, he is still quietly planning large-scale military operations.

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DRC army tanks on the border with Rwanda.

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Foreign private military contractors flood into North Kivu

Africa Intelligence lifts the veil on the private security companies currently operating in the eastern DRC city of Goma. There are dozens of former Soviet soldiers present, as well as a French businessman and a Romanian veteran of the French Foreign Legion.

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Soldiers of the Congolese Republican Guard walk on the tarmac of the airport in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on 12th November 2022.

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