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Prior to 1994, Rwanda's military was officially known as the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR), but following the Rwandan Civil War and the Rwandan genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) renamed it the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), which was the military wing of the RPF. In late 1994, the military was rebuilt and reorganized as the Rwandan ...
Rwandan Patriotic Front: Pasteur Bizimungu [3] 7 Brig.-Gen. Emmanuel Habyarimana: 2000 November 2002 1–2 years Rwandan Patriotic Front: Paul Kagame [3] 8 Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi: November 2002 April 2010 7 years, 5 months Rwandan Patriotic Front [3] 9 Gen. James Kabarebe : 10 April 2010 October 2018 8 years, 5 months Rwandan Patriotic Front [3] 10
The Goma offensive was a military campaign 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).
The U.N. special representative, Bintou Keita, told the Security Council that despite U.N. peacekeepers' support for the Congolese armed forces, M23 and Rwandan forces entered the Munigi ...
Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwanda government forces are deployed in neighboring eastern Congo, operating alongside the M23 rebel group which has been making major advances, U.N. experts said in a ...
"The ensuing clashes enabled the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) to repel the Rwandan terrorists who had perpetrated this intolerable provocation," the statement said ...
The Rwandan Air Force (French: Force aérienne rwandaise) is the air branch of the Rwandan Defence Forces. History. After achieving independence in 1962, ...
He was the former deputy commander of the FAR Presidential Guard in Rwanda in 1994. [5] Mudacumura was killed by DRC security in 2019. The FDLR made a partial separation between its military and civilian wings in September 2003 when a formal armed branch, the Forces Combattantes Abacunguzi (FOCA), was created. [5]