Eugène Serufuli Ngayabaseka (born 1962, Ruruma,

Rutshuru Rutshuru is a town located in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is headquarters of an administrative district, the Rutshuru Territory. The town lies in the western branch of the Albertine Rift between L ...

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, DRCongo ) is a Congolese politician, the ex 2nd Vice President of the

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and was the governor of

Nord-Kivu North Kivu () is a Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital city is Goma. Spanning approximately 59,483 square kilometers with a population esti ...

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,

district,

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

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.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 Hunde,

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and Tembo. In 2003, Serufuli created a "''Local Defense Force''" militia which was estimated to have numbered around 20,000.

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s 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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