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Name: Kivu conflict

Type: Event

Start: 2004 AD

End: 2013 AD

Parent: Congo Conflicts

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Was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, a rebel Hutu group in eastern Congo.

Chronology


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  • January 2009: Following a reversal of alliance, the Rwandan and Congolese governments launched a combined military operation on January 22, 2009 leading to the arrest of CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda in Rwanda on the evening of January 22.
  • May 2004: The National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) led by Nkunda declared hostilities with the DRC army in South Kivu and in May 2004 occupied the town of Bukavu.
  • December 2007: Nkunda (CNDP) retakes Mushake on December 10, as well as the locality of Karuba.
  • December 2007: A government offensive in early December retakes the locality of Mushake.
  • November 2007: Nkunda's CNDP troops capture the town of Nyanzale.
  • January 2005: The National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) falls back into the forests of Masisi.
  • October 2008: CNDP Advancement after the Battle of Goma (2008).
  • November 2013: On the night of November 4-5, 2013, the Congolese army drove M23 fighters from their last positions in the mountains of North Kivu.
  • August 2012: The rebel March 23 Movement took up arms again and took control of two towns, Bunagana and Rutshuru, in July 2012.
  • January 2005: After negotiations with the United Nations, Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) forces leave Bukavu.

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