Over 2,000 FARDC soldiers have been rounded up by the FRN across multiple fronts in South Kivu, per the force led by Joseph Kabila Kabange. The prisoners themselves are saying it plainly: the Congolese Revolutionary Army (ARC), the FRN's armed wing under Kabila, beat them militarily out there. Those same captured FARDC members loyal to Tshisekedi are meant to be retrained and turned back around, weapons pointed at the forces in Kinshasa. And while all that sits in the background, Joseph Kabila Kabange keeps the military side moving without noise, with commando trucks rolling toward Rumangabo and Tchanzu to give these Congolese fighters a new level of war professionalism