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By using the website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, you should not use the website.

FDLR Tracker publishes open-source monitoring, analysis, and contextual information about the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo security crisis, and related regional dynamics.

The website is intended for informational, research, journalistic, policy, and public-interest purposes. It is not a government service, emergency service, security directive, sanctions-screening tool, or substitute for professional legal, security, humanitarian, or investigative advice.

You may access, read, link to, and cite the website for lawful purposes, provided you do not misrepresent the source, distort the context of our work, remove attribution, or use the content in a way that endangers civilians, sources, researchers, journalists, or affected communities.

You are responsible for your own use of the website and for complying with applicable laws, professional duties, institutional policies, and safety obligations.

You may not use the website to threaten, harass, dox, intimidate, surveil, target, exploit, or cause harm to any person or community. You may not attempt to interfere with the website, bypass security controls, scrape at abusive scale, introduce malicious code, impersonate FDLR Tracker, or use our materials for unlawful activity.

You may not submit content that is knowingly false, unlawful, defamatory, abusive, infringing, malicious, or designed to expose sensitive individuals without a legitimate public-interest basis and appropriate safeguards.

We aim to publish accurate, contextual, and evidence-based information, but conflict reporting and open-source intelligence can involve incomplete, contested, fast-changing, or sensitive facts. Content may contain errors, omissions, delays, or interpretations that change as new information emerges.

FDLR Tracker may update, correct, remove, archive, or reframe content at any time. Publication does not mean that every external source, quotation, embedded item, linked page, or third-party claim is endorsed by FDLR Tracker.

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