Congo-Kinshasa: Joseph Kabila At the Helm of the New Political-Military Movement, FRN

[Agenzia Fides] Kinshasa -- Former President Joseph Kabila is at the helm of a new political-military movement announced on 12 October in Goma, capital of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (Front pour la Refondation de la Nation, FRN) was founded as the successor to the M23, a pro-Rwandan armed movement, and its political wing, the Congo River Alliance (Alliance Fleuve Congo, AFC). For at least three years, these forces have controlled large