# Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2017/399 of 7 March 2017 implementing Decision 2010/788/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Division 14: Leopold MUJYAMBERE

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(alias: a) Musenyeri b) Achille c) Frere Petrus Ibrahim)
Designation: a) FDLR-FOCA Chief of Staff, b) FDLR-FOCA Interim Deputy Commander.
Address: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (as of June 2016).
Date of Birth: a) 17 March 1962, b) Approximately 1966.
Place of Birth: Kigali, Rwanda.
Nationality: Rwanda.
Date of UN designation: 3 March 2009.
Other information: Became acting FDLR-FOCA Deputy Commander in 2014. Captured in Goma, DRC by Congolese security services in early May 2016 and transferred to Kinshasa. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/5224709
Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:
Leopold Mujyambere was Commander of the Second Division of FOCA, the armed branch of the FDLR. As military leader of a foreign armed group operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he impeded the disarmament and the voluntary repatriation and resettlement of combatants, in violation of Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) OP 4 (b). In evidence collated by the UNSC DRC Sanctions Committee Group of Experts, detailed in its report of 13 February 2008, girls recovered from FDLR-FOCA had previously been abducted and sexually abused. Since mid-2007, FDLR-FOCA, which previously recruited boys in their mid to late teens, has been forcefully recruiting youth from the age of 10 years. The youngest are then used as escorts, and older children are deployed as soldiers on the frontline, in violation of Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) OP4 (d) and (e).
In June 2011, he was the FOCA Commander of the South Kivu operational sector, then called ‘Amazon’. He was later promoted to FOCA Chief of Staff, and then acting Deputy Commander in 2014. He was captured in Goma, DRC by Congolese security services in early May 2016 and transferred to Kinshasa.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/399/annex/division/a/division/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-399/annex/division-a/division-14
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