• Laurent Nkunda (or Laurent Nkundabatware Mihigo (birth name), or Laurent Nkunda Batware, or as he prefers to be called The Chairman; born February 2,...
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  • Nkunda is a Congolese and Rwandan surname. Notable people with the name include: Elizabeth Nkunda Batenga, Tanzanian politician Laurent Nkunda (1967),...
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    these two forces, rebel Tutsi forces, formerly under the command of Laurent Nkunda, became the dominant opposition to the government forces. The United...
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    défense du peuple, CNDP) is a political armed militia established by Laurent Nkunda in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December...
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  • Phoenix Laurent Laplante (1934–2017), Canadian journalist, essayist and detective writer Laurent Nkunda, Congolese rebel general Harry Laurent (1895–1987)...
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    mixage entre FARDC et éléments de Laurent Nkunda" [Goma: towards the mix between FARDC and elements of Laurent Nkunda]. Radio Okapi (in French). 2007-01-05...
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    army, supported by the United Nations, and Tutsi militia under General Laurent Nkunda. The fighting, which began on October 25, uprooted 250,000 civilians...
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  • Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), against which Laurent Nkunda's troops were fighting, but other smaller groups such as the anti-Ugandan...
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    Rwanda allegedly supported the continuing rebellion of General Nkunda in Congo. Nkunda was, however, arrested by Rwandan police in 2009. The DRC sought...
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  • dissident general Laurent Nkunda. A hastily negotiated verbal agreement in Rwanda saw three government FAC brigades integrated with Nkunda's former ANC 81st...
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    mixage entre FARDC et éléments de Laurent Nkunda" [Goma: towards the mix between FARDC and elements of Laurent Nkunda]. Radio Okapi (in French). 2007-01-05...
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  • instituted a reign of terror. Laurent Nkunda was an officer in the RCD-Goma. In 2003, with the official end of that war, Nkunda joined the new integrated...
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    General Laurent Nkunda. DRC officials reported that two government soldiers were killed in the fighting. According to The Independent, Nkunda, who is...
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    between government troops and rebels led by Laurent Nkunda, with an estimated 250,000 people made homeless. Nkunda claimed his CNDP forces were protecting...
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    force. In June 2004, Bukavu, South Kivu was occupied by rebel general Laurent Nkunda. A military observer was killed. The 1,000 MONUC troops could only protect...
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    Kisangani; this is believed to be the work of those under the command of Laurent Nkunda. By the time a peace agreement was signed in 2002, the town was under...
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    broker an agreement between the Congolese government and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda to spare the mountain gorilla sector of the park from the ongoing civil...
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    (2004–present). On August 19, 2003, DRC government decree 019/2003 offered Laurent Nkunda the rank of Brigadier General and command of the new Congo Government's...
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    insurgents). During a November 2008 interview with Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, he disclosed that a band of his rebels refer to themselves as the "Group...
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    prompting a sharp rebuke by the government of Rwanda. Prior to this, Gen. Laurent Nkunda had split from the government, taking Banyamulenge (ethnic Tutsis in...
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    Nyiragongo. Deadly battles between the government military and forces led by Laurent Nkunda led thousands of residents of Sake to flee in August 2006. On 25 November...
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    provisional government was based in the city. Gisenyi is the city where Laurent Nkunda — accused by the United Nations of having led an army that illegally...
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    which Kabila won, and in December 2006 he was sworn in as president. Laurent Nkunda, a member of Rally for Congolese Democracy–Goma, defected along with...
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    First Congo War 1996–1997 and Second Congo War 1998–2003 Kivu Conflict (Laurent Nkunda Rebellion) Kenya has enjoyed relatively stable governance. However,...
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    separate meetings with DRC President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. During the Zimbabwean election of July 2013, Obasanjo headed a delegation...
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  • Islands 1967 – Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach 1967 – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general 1968 – Kenny Albert, American sportscaster 1968 –...
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    included a major rebellion from 2005 to 2009, led by Congolese Tutsi Laurent Nkunda, as well as the a rebellion carried out by the March 23 Movement (M23)...
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    rehabilitate the mining equipment. Smuggling of pyrochlore by rebels under Laurent Nkunda is said to take place across the border into Rwanda. There are approximately...
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    included a major rebellion from 2005 to 2009, led by Congolese Tutsi Laurent Nkunda, as well as the a rebellion carried out by the March 23 Movement (M23)...
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  • 2007, it was the scene of fighting between the forces of rebel general Laurent Nkunda and the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese...
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