« The first conflict Zaire 1996-1997. Since 1998, the conflict has claimed more than 3 million victims. Seven African countries are involved in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia on one side, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi on the other. 1998-2003: seven countries at war on the soil of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With the outbreak of the second conflict in the former Zaire, Kivu is again the start of hostilities in a conflict of extreme complexity characterized by the fragmentation of rebel groups concentrated in the eastern DRC ( Congolese, Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian) allies or rivals based on their ethnicity and interests of the moment, by the opening match of the African countries allied to Kabila, by alliances and mesalliances between belligerents on all sides (Congolese and foreign ) and economic issues for the DRC and its neighbors. In July 1998, Kabila dismisses its original Tutsi ministers and decreed the expulsion »
With the outbreak of the second conflict in the former Zaire, Kivu is again the start of hostilities in a conflict of extreme complexity characterized by the fragmentation of rebel groups concentrated in the eastern DRC ( Congolese, Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian) allies or rivals based on their ethnicity and interests of the moment, by the opening match of the African countries allied to Kabila, by alliances and mesalliances between belligerents on all sides (Congolese and foreign ) and economic issues for the DRC and its neighbors. In July 1998, Kabila dismisses its original Tutsi ministers and decreed the expulsion of Rwandan troops in the DRC since 1997. The alliance with his former brothers in arms then breaks definitively. On August 2, 1998, a new rebel Banyamulenge soldiers, disappointed the new regime broke out in Kivu, this time against Kabila they had drawn him to power in May 1997. The Contenders: Since August 1998, fierce fighting place not only in the province of Kivu, but...