Congolese troops have fled their positions from highlands and midlands of Baraka and Fizi, using the Chinese Howo trucks after the FRN rebels exerted intense bombardment and atilery fire.
The Kabila-led rebels on Thursday liberated Abala, Coline Nambukuma, Elekye and Abangya villages.
By Friday morning it emerged that a drone struck FARDC position at Rurambo Uvira territory in south Kivu killing numerous soldiers. However, the body count details remain unconfirmed.
According to the information received, the attack has caused heavy losses among the FARDC soldiers present on site.
As the military operations flare up on both sides, the war is taking a new dimension never seen before since the rebellion begun.
More high profile officers of the Congolese military are switching sides and joining the FRN rebels ranks.
Most such FARDC senior officers got elevated under Kabila’s regime and some are from Katanga the ancestral origin of the FRN leader.
Brig.Gen. Germain Katanga nicknamed “Simba”(above) has defected from FARDC and joined the ranks of the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN).
Also Major Dem Twite Kumwimba Jean, an officer of the Republican Guard, has also joined the FRN.
The FRN rebel movement said it would publish the identities of other FARDC officers who have joined the rebels.
Meanwhile, 4 colonels, 2 lieutenant colonels, and 1 captain, 7 lieutenants, and 635 soldiers of the ranks (FARDC) joined the FRN force on 27/10/2026 near Nzibira in South Kivu.
