Congolese Revolutionary Movement
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The Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) is a rebel group in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Laurent Nkunda
, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People
, allied with the MRC in July 2006. Mathieu Ngojolo, the interim president of the MRC and a previous member of the Nationalist and Integrationist Front
(FNI), agreed to join the Congolese army as a General, on July 27, 2006. The government pardoned all previous crimes he may have committed.
The MRC, the FNI, and the Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri
(FRPI) agreed to disarm on August 22, 2007.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
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Laurent Nkunda
Laurent Nkunda
Laurent Nkunda or Laurent Nkundabatware, or Laurent Nkunda Batware, or as he prefers to be called The Chairman — is a former General in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and is the former warlord operating in the province of Nord-Kivu, sympathetic to Congolese Tutsis and the...
, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People
National Congress for the Defence of the People
The National Congress for the Defence of the People is a political armed militia established by Laurent Nkunda in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December 2006. The CNDP was engaged in the Kivu conflict, an armed conflict against the military of the Democratic Republic...
, allied with the MRC in July 2006. Mathieu Ngojolo, the interim president of the MRC and a previous member of the Nationalist and Integrationist Front
Nationalist and Integrationist Front
The Nationalist and Integrationist Front is a Lendu rebel group active in the Ituri conflict in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FNI has fought against the Hema tribe and is blamed for the ambush and murder of nine MONUC peacekeepers near the town of Kafe in February 2005...
(FNI), agreed to join the Congolese army as a General, on July 27, 2006. The government pardoned all previous crimes he may have committed.
The MRC, the FNI, and the Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri
Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri
The Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri is a Beni-based armed militia and political party in the Ituri Province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FRPI was established in November 2002 from the Ngiti ethnic group as an ally to the Lendu Nationalist and Integrationist Front...
(FRPI) agreed to disarm on August 22, 2007.