Rwanda captures Malawi rebel in DRC

October 3, 2019 Owen Khamula -Nyasa Times 52 Comments

A Malawian is said to be among a group of RNC combatants arrested in Democratic Republic of Congo and were arraigned in Rwandese military court on Wednesday.

Tanzania-born-Malawian among those captured RNC.-photo by Emmanuel Kwizera

Rwanda’s The NewTimes newspaper says four Burundians and three Ugandans are also among the 25 Rwanda National Congress (RNC) rebel group members captured and arraigned in the court.

The Malawian national has been identified as Lambert Ribanje, who was born in 1996 in Rumazi camp in Tanzania, according to The NewTimes.

The newspaper says Ribanje and the other 24 rebels have since been charged with being part of an unlawful military outfit, treason, forming an illegal military outfit, and conniving with foreign countries to destabilize Rwanda.

The report says led by South African-based fugitive Kayumba Nyamwasa, RNC is a terrorist organization blamed for a spate of grenade attacks in Rwanda between 2010 and 2014 that killed 17 people and injured over 400 others.

There was no immediate comment from Malawi authorities on the issue.

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52 replies on “Rwanda captures Malawi rebel in DRC”

  2. Honestly speaking he is not a Malawian. If you look at his name it doesn’t sound Malawian name but he might have been found with an identity of Malawi e.g. passport. So let’s not get worried as Malawians law catch with him.

  3. But why we are keeping refugees here while there countries have peace? please send them back close all camps we are destroying our country.

  4. The issue here is not that of immigration or corruption matters is an issue of UNHCR and the Dzaleka management. Lambert Ribanje was born in the refugee camp in Tanzania and grown up in Dowa/Dzaleka camp in Malawi which is only the country he knows before sent to rebel group in Congo, that is why Malawi has been mentioned and we may expect other cases like this one of Ribanje. Rebels don’t need passports but guns

  6. Beleive it or not,Malawi passports,have been onsell since Bingu was in power and I happened to warn the Malawi Embassy here in Canada,but all in vain and another Malawi Officer in the Malawi Embassy,even wrote me letter that Ian not allowed to interfere with the matters pertain to Malawi affairs because I was a rebel and I can still remember his name as Msaka.Then there were lots of people from African countries who,had Cheap Malawian Passport some are still using abroad.So,you can see that,your country has no patriotic leadership and it is still the worst garbage in the continent of Africa.The most people who gained most are those from Zimbabwe,Nigeria,Rwanda,Burundi and to some extent,the obnoxious Somalis and fellow Muslims who enter our country to Islamize Malawian Christians WATCHOUT MALAWIANS!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. A refugee can use any passport which can help him or her to travel abroad without being a citizen of that country in using all means available to him/her. The Malawi passport is not only that has problem than those of Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, DRC etc…

    2. WINSTON MSOWOYA !
      ANOTHER BRAINLESS AND USELESS GUY AT IT AGAIN ! ATTACKING OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM.
      YOU ARE PRETENDING TO BE IN CANADA AND YET YOU ARE IN ZOLOZOLO.
      NTHAWI ZONSE UMALEMBA ZOSAMBVEKA BWANJI ?

    3. Wabodza iwe! There are thousands of doctors and other professionals, so called Malawians, in the UK but only 20% are Malawians, the rest are from West Africa and Middle East, onsewa anapereka ma passport ndi Bingu?
      Osamangophwisa ndi Lazaro wanuyo bwanji!!!

  8. nkeesa ma minister acina ibama,mussa akatogulitsa ma passport without verifying who these pipo are. cheap and ndale zakuthengere. denying propwr citizens kukhala ndi passport .kuiyendera mpaka kugiva. eetu

    1. Corruption ya mapasipoti inayamba nthawi ya atcheya, ikupitrira mpaka pano. Bwanji mukukamba za Bingu yenkha nanga enawa?

  10. Malawian name has never been Ribanje starts R no such name in Malawi. The Malawian citizens would never go to Congo or Rwanda never, to do what?

    This not a Malawian look you’re talking of being born in camp.. is that a village..

    The man is from Burund came like a refugee and went back..

  12. My input in this article is that send four people from Dpp party and two from MCP PLUS two officers as one from Immigration and one from Police though not trustworthy to interview the boy before Malawi name is dented by the International community. The worse part of Malawi is that many foreigners are in Malawi just to get a Passport as get way to Europe and other Countries abroad. Immigration officers in Malawi too corrupt hence even Zimbabweans are in many offices in the Country and cheat that they are Malawians whose parents were MATCHONA and when you quizz them to show their home District they say Thyolo or Chirazulo. And further quizz them where is Chirazulo and they say Lunzu District!!!!!
    The main problem starts with immigration Department in Malawi – VERY VERY CORRUPT PEOPLE and so disgraced. The same applies with our sisters who easily marry them without any problem at all
    as long as they have money; UHURE UMENEWO especially Southern part of Malawi. Make it a law that when they marry our sisters they must take back elsewhere or their respective homes and never stay in our country; for instance Nigerians are in full practice of the same trick of acquiring Malawian Passports which is too easy on EARTH.

  13. Malawian. but born in Tanzania captured in Rwanda kkkkkkk How can he be a Malawian when he was born in Tanzania.Who issued the passport to this guy

  15. He is not a Malawian. The guy just got a Malawian passport because of corruption of Immigration Department. Common sense tells you that the name is not Malawian and that a Malawian cannot fight in a war

  18. He is a Malawian due to bad systems of government cos it only provides passports to foreigners rather than the real Malawians, some will agree with me that if u go to immigration for registration of passport u are asked alot of questions up to the extent of evening forgetting where u come from, the journalist its your duty to dig such issues for national interest, waku Malawi sanabadwirepo ku Refuge Camp

  19. We need to allow our Police to travel to Rwanda to interview this man to know how come this man who was born in Tanzania and is Claiming to be a Malawian. Our Immigration has been so corrupt through out, we dont have to mention an individual, from 1999 After the fall of the Economy in Zimbabwe many Zimbabweans used Malawi as an easy country to get Passports from to go to Europe, many were obtaining them corruptly, some through blood connections. This guy must be a refugee from Rwanda its self and was born in Tanzania and was settled in Dzaleka Camp as a refugee, knows no any other country apart from Malawi where he has lived

  24. We as a country might have Issues but the above story lacks merit, Mwati Lambart Ribanje from Which Village, District in MAlawi, born in a refugee camp in Tanzania really what were his parents doing in the refugee camp amathawa chiyani ku malawi kuno

    Immigration department Nkhani iyo ndi yanu ma Passport mumangogawa as if its a MASAF project……….. sort this mess Up ASAP

    1. Nkhaniyi ndiyaboza.Just want to dent Malawis immaged but thats bad.Malawians are peace loving people they cant do this.

    2. I can agree this guy is not a Malawian.Only the problem is there at our immigration department where they are getting corrupt passports

  26. government should do its best to repatriate this useful guy so that he can strengthen HRDC during these demos.

  27. a Malawian rebel born in a refugee camp in Tanzania ???? How is this possible ?? am I missing something here ?????

  29. This guy is not a Malawian by all standards. Name, where he was born does not look Malawian. He may have obtained a Malawian passport which was sold to Burundi nationals by DPP vice president for the center Mr. Chenjigolo

  30. That’s the price we pay for carelessly handing citizenships to war refugees! This guy in not Malawian

  31. These are fruits of Uladi Mussah. He sold our passports hence our citizenship. This guy looks Rwandese and yet he is Malawian. Shame on you Uladi.

  33. A Malawian born in Tanzania at a camp? What was he doing at the camp? do we have Malawians as refugees in Tanzania? The Story has some gaps

  38. this is a total lie from the Rwandan govt he is one of their own.how come for Malawian to be born in a refugee camp in Tanzania? there has never been war in Malawi so what were his parents doing in a refugee camp..he is either from DRC Burundi or Rwanda who together with his parents sought refuge in my beautiful Malawi and not a Malawi national

  39. If the guy is a Malawian what’s his connection to Malawi? You write that he was born in Tanzania but no information on his Malawi origins.

  40. This is the price we get for the rotten corruption at immigration dept. This man is obviously not Malawian at all but was sold a passport to tarnish our image.

  41. The ties between Malawi and this Lambert are so lose. I do not think that Malawi Government would be commenting on such an issue. Born in Tanzania and a rebel in Rwanda, this is where he belongs, the Great Lakes Region. I doubt his Malawian identity. Even his name itself, it is not Malawian. If I were Nyasa Times editor I would not even publish it. Sizikutikhuza olo! Ataaa!

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