FRIVAO holds extraordinary session in Kinshasa from 10 to 14 November
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Beto
The board of FRIVAO, the fund to compensate victims of Ugandan army activities between 1998 and 2003, has opened a five-day extraordinary session in Kinshasa. Its acting chairman Dismas Kitenge Senga wants to speed up reparations and turn the page on controversies over the management of funds, according to Beto.
The Board of Directors of the Special Fund for the Distribution of Compensation to Victims of Illicit Activities of Uganda (FRIVAO) opened an extraordinary session on Tuesday 10 November 2026 in Kinshasa. It runs until 14 November, in the Maiko room of the Ministry of the Interior, under the leadership of Dismas Kitenge Senga, acting chairman of the Board of Directors.
The meeting brings together board members, experts and representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministries of Justice and Finance, and the FRIVAO Coordination. The fund is to compensate victims of acts committed by the Ugandan army in DR Congo between 1998 and 2003, notably in Ituri.
Dismas Kitenge Senga said the institution "is going through a pivotal period, marked by imperatives of recovery, rigour and acceleration of the reparations process". He added that the victims "have waited long enough" and that every decision must be guided by their interest and strict respect for the law.
Nine items are on the agenda. They include the evaluation of earlier resolutions, the impact of the Court of Cassation ruling RP23/CR/RP24/CR on the ordered restitutions, which concern in particular Congo Energy, Divo SPRL, the ICCN and the consultancy Tropiques, the pay situation of staff recruited by the interim Coordination, and the replacement of the consultancy Tropiques.
