# Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 14 February 2025 Bukavu came under M23 with RDF support, as recited in S/RES/2773.

## Context

He commands the RDF. The Council recited both cities in one resolution. Keep 14 February separate from 28 January.

Goma 28 January; Bukavu 14 February; 2773 on 21 February 2025. Keep Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773 on 2025-02-14 separate from neighbouring M23, 2773, ballot, and mapping-report instruments.

The president of Rwanda is head of state and commander-in-chief of the RDF. He can decree, run a 99 percent ballot, and open or close a cross-border file. He does not write UNSC resolutions, does not sit as a Johannesburg inquest magistrate, and does not author a unique DRC civilian death total invented here.

## Evidence and sources

UN Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is eastern-drc-m23-rdf: a second 2025 city capture on the same driver.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2773 recites Bukavu on 14 February 2025.

Not established: A unique Bukavu civilian death total from that day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

2773 records RDF support.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773, not a later speech about Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773 on 2025-02-14 is not a licence to treat every later UN Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Bukavu falls, as recited in S/RES/2773 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He commands the RDF. 2773 records RDF support. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Paul Kagame: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-kagame

## Drivers

- Eastern DRC / M23–RDF (Great Lakes): https://factrail.ai/drivers/eastern-drc-m23-rdf

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/m23-rebels-bukavu-drc-2025-02-14/
- https://undocs.org/S/RES/2773(2025)

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/rw-bukavu-2025