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15 January – At least ten people are killed in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces on the village of Makoko in Lubero Territory, North Kivu. [3] 21 January – M23 rebels seize the towns of Minova, Lumbishi, Numbi and Shanje in South Kivu, as well as Bweremana in North Kivu. [4]
The land forces are made up of about 14 integrated brigades, of fighters from all the former warring factions which have gone through an brassage integration process (see next paragraph), and a not-publicly known number of non-integrated brigades which remain solely made up from single factions (the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD)'s Armee National Congolaise, the ex-government former ...
The 2025 Goma offensive was a military operation launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Congolese rebel group that is part of the Congo River Alliance (AFC) and is supported by Rwanda, against the regional capital of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It lasted from January 23 to January 30, 2025.
The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (French: Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre), also known by the French acronym AFDL, was a coalition of Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian, and Congolese dissidents, disgruntled minority groups, and nations that toppled Mobutu Sese Seko and brought Laurent-Désiré Kabila to power in the First ...
Forces de défense du Congo (FDC) Butu Luanda Charles Mbura (until 2013; split into MAC) Madragul FDC–Tumusifu 2016 Tumusifu † [3] Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) 2000 Omega Gaby Ruhinda FNL Aloys Nzabampema FNL Nibizi Shuti Baryanka † Nibizi Popular Forces of Burundi (FOREBU/FPB) 2016 Jérémie Ntiranyibagira
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Forces armées de la république démocratique du Congo, FARDC) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War, in July 2003.
On 24 February 2013, leaders of eleven African nations signed an agreement designed to bring peace to the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, among them Rwanda and Uganda. Both had been accused of aiding the M23 rebellion, a charge they denied. [ 74 ]
The Zairian military put up minimal resistance, [43] and the AFDL received support from multiple other African countries. [44] In May 1997 the AFDL entered Kinshasa without any fighting as the Mobutu regime fell. [45] Kabila became president and restored the country's original name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [46]