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Rebel group Subgroups / Affiliates Year Established Leader Notes AFRC Charles Bokande † “Je t’aime” Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo (APCLS) 2010 Janvier Karairi Allied Democratic Forces: 1996 Jamil Mukulu (POW) (leader until 2015) Musa Baluku(leader 2015–2019; commander of pro-ISIL faction from 2019)
The Second battle of Kitshanga broke out between Rwandan-backed M23 fighters and self-defense groups known as Wazalendo allied with the Congolese government. In January 2023, M23 rebels captured Kitshanga from the Congolese Army and allied forces in their renewed offensive in North Kivu. [ 3 ]
The March 23 Movement (French: Mouvement du 23 mars), often abbreviated as M23 and also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army (Armée révolutionnaire du Congo), [9] is a Congolese Tutsi-led rebel military group. [10]
Congo's security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country's eastern region near the border with Rwanda, the White House announced just ...
M23 rebels in Goma, November 2012. The March 23 Movement waged a rebellion in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2012 to 2013. M23 was formed by deserters of the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) who had previously been members of the CNDP rebel group and been dissatisfied with the conditions of their service.
The list includes two leaders of the M23 rebel group, a Tutsi-led group that has intensified its campaign in eastern Congo this year, and two from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
The EPLC (La Force de l’Eveil Patriotique pour la Liberation du Congo), often calling themselves ’Wazalendo’ (Swahili for patriots or nationalists), is a group of irregular fighters [2] in North Kivu province made up of rebel groups allied with the official Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) military and opposed to the M23. [3]
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 ...