Eugène Serufuli Ngayabaseka (born 1962, Ruruma, Rutshuru, North Kivu, DRCongo ) is a Congolese politician, the ex 2nd Vice President of the

Congolese Rally for Democracy-Goma Congolese or Kongolese may refer to: African peoples * Congolese people (disambiguation) * Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola, primarily defined by ...

and was the governor of Nord-Kivu province from July 31, 2000 until 2007, when was succeeded by the RCD-K-ML candidate, Paluku Kahongya Julien. Serufuli is a

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member of the

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ethnic minority, who are native to the territory of Rutshuru. He was born in Ruruma, Rutshuru district, North Kivu province. He studied at the Kinshasa University and worked as an anaesthetist at the Goma General Hospital. He was head of the hospital trade union and was an activist in the MAGREVI organisation which campaigned for Banyarwanda rights.

Political career

In August 1998 he joined the political board of the RCD and in October 2000, in the middle of the

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, he was appointed Governor of North Kivu by the Congolese Rally for Democracy.New forms of political order in North Kivu: The case of the governor Eugene Serufuli
Luca Jourdan, 2005-12-01, accessed on 2007-02-24 The appointment of a Hutu Banyarwanda was designed to bring them into an alliance with the predominantly

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Banyarwanda led RCD and their Tutsi Rwandan government backers against the anti-Tutsi

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and indigenous Congolese ethnic groups such as the

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and Tembo. In 2003, Serufuli created a "''Local Defense Force''" militia which was estimated to have numbered around 20,000. Non-government organizations accused him of recruiting children and

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n soldiers who had demobbed following the departure of the Rwandan army from DR Congo. Which were later proven to be false accusations.Current situation: Exploitation, arms flows and trends
''Congo-NED'', 2003, accessed on 2007-02-24 In 2014, he was appointed as the minister of rural development. In 2016, he was appointed as the minister of small and medium companies.

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Interview with IRIN in 2004
1962 births Living people People from North Kivu Rally for Congolese Democracy politicians Governors of provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{DRCongo-politician-stub

Political career

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