RDC: Conference Episcopale Nationale du Congo (CENCO) – Declaration de la Conference Episcopale Nationale du Congo (CENCO) sur l’application de la peine de mort en RD Congo (06.10.2025)

Moses Birigwa: The Activist turned Secretary General

“I don’t feel betrayed by Bobi Wine, but rather betrayed by the leaders from the Busoga region. They have tried their best to make me look like a bad person to our president Bobi Wine. I am glad Bobi Wine knows me and he knows how I have been dedicated towards the struggle” – Moses Birigwa (12.12.2023).

“In 2023, I vowed never again to be led by civilians who lack the capacity to lead a revolution. I have served under many who failed to deliver. That’s why I’ve joined forces with Field Marshal Munyagwa, a true man of the people. I now commit to championing the issues of the common man, long ignored by both the government and the opposition” – Moses Birigwa (15.07.2025).

The former National Unity Platform (NUP) mobiliser for Eastern Uganda has now become the Secretary General of the Common Man’s Party (CMP). This is the party of a former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) MP Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga who is the Presidential Candidate for the party. Moses Birigwa is entrusting his future in the hands of a former MP and new Opposition leader. A man who just recently said he left the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF). Therefore, they are both vibing for relevance and wanting their cut.

They are all eating of the same plate. Birigwa was the activist and mobiliser for NUP. In that role, he has been arrested and tortured. That’s been documented and proven. As a man of the struggle, he fought and got caught. As a NUP Mobiliser he paid a price and did his duties.

As any man can or want, he can leave a party and go to another one. We don’t know when he moved to the Common Man’s Party, but it can’t be to long ago. As the changes in the party and whatnot isn’t that long ago. He must have built trust and a genuine relationship with Munyagwa to do this. As he was working for the NUP and trying to build the party in Eastern Uganda.

Seriously, this man had a choice, and he has decided. It was all up to him, and he went with the CMP instead of the NUP. That was he wanted to do, and he did. Steadily at various of media appearances his speaking of the difference between CMP and NUP. His not attacking the NRM, but busy challenging his former party. That is an interesting move, and he should consider his stance.

Birigwa has a major role in the CMP, but the CMP is nowhere where the NUP is. That is well known, and everyone can see that on the campaign trail. The CMP won’t amass or make a ripple effect.

If Moses wanted to get out of the desert and get to the promised land. I can tell you that won’t happen with CMP. No, he walks in the desert for years to come and only Joshua will enter it. He should read that story and maybe reflect a bit. We don’t know what the other leaders in the NUP did in the Eastern region, but that could have been handled. Instead, he has now left and boosting his own ego.

His lucky to get the title of Secretary General of the CMP, but that won’t save him. He decided to do this, and he will walk in the sunshine without any end. It will be tiring… and exhausting. Peace.

Eswatini: The King made a deal to take in “dangerous criminals” from the U.S.

“The United States selected the Kingdom of Eswatini as a destination for deporting non-citizens whose home countries refuse to accept them under a third-country deportation program initiated during the Trump administration. The agreement, negotiated over several months, includes financial incentives, with the US providing $5.1 million to bolster Eswatini’s border and migration management systems. Under the deal, Eswatini can accept up to 160 individuals labeled by the US as “dangerous criminals,” including those convicted of murder, child rape, and burglary. The first group of five arrived in July 2025, with a second group of 11 expected in October 2025. The deportees are housed in isolated prison units, such as the Matsapha Correctional Complex, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) coordinates their eventual repatriation, though no clear timelines have been shared” (The Truth Panther, 06.10.2025).

There are reports that King Mswati III made a secretive agreement with the U.S. Government to take in and accept up to 160 “dangerous criminals” or “Third-Country Nationals” from the USA. They will be held and kept in Eswatini until they are able to send them “home”. Therefore, the Kingdom is becoming a dumping ground for undesirable from the USA.

Whatever deal that the King has made was done without giving privy of this information to the bureaucracy and the ones appointed by him. The King has done this all without informing the Prime Minister, the cabinet or the Parliament. The agreement has been made between the U.S. Government and the King directly. The monarch has absolute power and holds onto all instruments of the state. Therefore, he can do this, but it doesn’t mean it righteous.

The King is doing this for the money. His trading all ethics and all considerations of who his getting and who is accepting to be in the Kingdom. The King is allowing the entry of these people and taking for granted who they are. Thinking the IOM and others can facilitate their return to their “home country”. That’s his endgame and he think it will be possible.

The Trump regime is giddy, because they are paying a small price to get rid of the ones they don’t want in their republic. For that regime it doesn’t matter if this is against “due process” or rightfully so. This deportation is a victory and his delivering on promises to his electorate. Meanwhile, it has barely any cost and is a cheap trick. Which will be an issue for Eswatini to sort out.

The Kingdom is the one that will have to figure it out and deal with these individuals. After the U.S. has sent them there. They are in custody of Eswatini, and they are no longer connected to the U.S. That’s all the Trump regime wants, and they are getting for it cheap. Just imagine that and the King is the one accepting this small fee for this deplorable action. Peace.

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DRC: M23/AFC/ARC calls itself a “liberation front” to liberate the nation…

I have come today to announce the end of your training. You are officially part of the Congolese Revolutionary Army (ARC). So, wear your berets. You are now soldiers of the ARC, the liberation army, an army fighting to bring change to this country. Our country has long been destroyed by the government in Kinshasa, led by Tshisekedi, a regime that destroys the country, plunders it, kills civilians at will, according to their tribes and affinities, and turns the Congolese into refugees, transforming our country into private property. That is why the M23/ARC rose up to put an end to this bad governance and bring about change in our nation. Your comrades, already deployed in other regions, have done remarkable work. You will support them and join them in overthrowing this evil regime. Our country needs to be liberated. All Congolese people aspire to liberation, and that is our mission, as is the M23 movement and the ARC army” – Major General Sultani Makenga (01.10.2025).

Now it seems like the tides are turning, something has been set in motion, as the stalemate in the Kivu Provinces are over. The AFC/M23 which are now turning into the Congolese Revolutionary Army (ARC) is now becoming a thing. That was announced on Wednesday and one of the vital army commanders said it. There is no pretext here and is no other way to describe it. But now the proxy-militia with foreign backing is planning a coup d’etat and a war to takeover the nation.

This isn’t new either, previous Presidents has done this in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They waged war and took over. They didn’t win the throne by the ballot, but by the end of a gun. If that was Laurent Kabila or Mobutu. Certainly, none of these won the heart of the nation, but they took it. That’s what they did.

This ARC can remind us of the Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire (AFDL) when Laurent Kabila’s allies and foreign backers made it possible to topple Mobutu in 1997. That’s decades ago and who knows if the M23/AFC/ARC plans to do something similar. They paraded 10,000 soldiers or trained militants on the 1st October 2025, but that doesn’t mean they are capable or able to succeed. That’s really something to get all the way from the Kivu Provinces and reach Kinshasa. Even if it has been done before, doesn’t necessarily mean they are capable of it now.

We are seeing the clips and the quotes of the speech of Major General Sultani Makenga. His explicitly saying the mission and the end game. That’s a coup and a total takeover. This is a proxy military mission and it’s not even done covertly. They have now said it and that has a price. The ones backing the entities and the ones involved are practically acting with treasonous behaviour. This are people who are going against the sovereign and the ones whose representing the nation. That’s what these people are aiming for and they are waging war to get there. They have to continue to attack, annex and destroy the FARDC to get there. Meaning they are not coming to stop the FDLR, but that was the excuse to invade and impose a puppet regime in Kinshasa. That’s it and it’s not even that brilliant.

We have seen this before and people should recognize this moment. The ones in Kinshasa and their allies better listen up too. They are not even concealing it. It is all up in the open and for everyone to see. Makenga and the proxy-militia isn’t spreading fear, but it is telling a story. That story needs to be told and be strategically acted upon. This needs to be addressed and prepared for, as they are clearly training militants and envisioning the ability to topple the rulers of Kinshasa. That’s saying something and they better prepare and be ready. They have already said what they want to do and now the ones in-charge should act accordingly. Peace.

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