Mujyambere Leopold

Rwanda

a) FDLR-FOCA Chief of Staff b) FDLR-FOCA Interim Deputy Commander.

1962-03-17; 1966

Kigali, Rwanda

as of June 2016, Kinshasa, Congo DR

EU, UN

Commander of the Second Division of FOCA/the Reserve Brigades (an FDLR armed branch). Military leader of a foreign armed group operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, impeding the disarmament and the voluntary repatriation and resettlement of combatants, per 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, per Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) OP4 (d) and (e).

CH

article 2 (Financial sanctions) and 4 (Travel ban), annex 1

Became acting FDLR-FOCA Deputy Commander in 2014. Captured in Goma, DRC by Congolese security services in early May 2016 and transferred to Kinshasa.; Designation: a) FDLR-FOCA Chief of Staff b) FDLR-FOCA Interim Deputy Commander.

CH

Ordinance of 22 June 2005 on measures against the Democratic Republic of Congo (SR 946.231.12)

UN, Switzerland country specific

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Asset freeze, Travel ban

Switzerland imposes these sanctions under the Ordinance of 22 June 2005 on measures against the Democratic Republic of Congo (SR 946.231.12). The measures implement sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council and follow those of the European Union.