OFAC sanctions senior commanders of the FDLR and M23 rebel groups for fueling violence and instability in eastern DRC, in a bid to curb atrocities and push the region toward peace

OFAC’s press release designates Gustave Kubwayo, an FDLR intelligence and special operations commander, and John Imani Nzenze, M23’s chief of intelligence, under DRC-related sanctions authorities. Treasury links the action to wider U.S. efforts to support peace in eastern DRC, block property connected to sanctioned armed group leaders and deter transactions that sustain conflict, human rights abuses and regional destabilisation…