Sultani Makenga

The M23's Ugandan-based wing led by Bertrand Bisimwa and General Sultani Makenga has been apparently involved in reconciliation talks with its Rwandan-backed wing led by Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero...

They continue to cultivate links to ex-M23 commanders in exile notably Sultani Makenga who in 2013 fled Congo-K for Uganda with roughly 1 300 followers...

A senior member of M23 leader Sultani Makenga’s team is in Kampala thrashing out new proposals with M23’s Ugandan and Rwandan backers to put to President Joseph Kabila’s government Africa Confidential has learned...

The conventional wisdom is that the removal of Bosco Ntaganda opens the way to a final accommodation with his M23 rival Sultani Makenga...

Some 1 300 M23 fighters now under the undisputed leadership of Sultani Makenga have secured their positions in Rutshuru territory in North Kivu Province...

A violent split in M23 at the end of February saw serious fighting between the dominant Rwandan-supported Sultani Makenga faction and the minority behind the ex-leader of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) General Jean-Bosco Ntaganda (AC Vol 54 No 5 Piecemeal deal)...

Rivals for the M23 leadership vexed the deal-makers by choosing this moment to fight it out: several members were shot dead or blown up in the power struggle between Sultani Makenga and Jean-Bosco Ntaganda...

Sultani Makenga flew to Kampala to meet Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...

The only matter of substance agreed at the meeting was to add one of M23’s joint leaders Sultani Makenga to the UN travel ban and asset freeze list...

The Experts also say that the nominal M23 leader Sultani Makenga ‘procured weapons from UPDF officers’ returning from visits to the Ugandan border town of Kisoro ‘with 12...