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  • First Congo War
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  • The First Congo War (1996–1997) was a foreign invasion of Zaire led by Rwanda that replaced a decades-long dictator, Mobutu Sésé Seko with the rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Destabilization in eastern Zaire that resulted from the Rwandan Genocide was the final factor that caused numerous internal and external factors to align against the corrupt and inept government in the capital, Kinshasa. The new government renamed the country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but it brought little true change. Kabila alienated his Rwanda and Ugandan allies. To avert a coup, Kabila expelled all Rwandan and Ugandan forces from the Congo. This event was a major cause of the Second Congo War the following year. Some experts prefer to view the two conflicts as one war.
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Strength
  • 24
  • 40000
  • 50000
  • AFDL: 57,000
  • Army of Zaïre:
  • Interahamwe
  • Rwanda: 3,500
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Partof
  • the Congo conflicts
Date
  • --08-31
Commander
  • José Eduardo dos Santos
  • Yoweri Museveni
  • Paul Kagame
  • Laurent-Désiré Kabila
  • Mobutu Sese Seko
Territory
  • Zaire was reorganized into the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Caption
  • Refugee camp in Zaire, 1994
Casualties
  • 3000
  • 10000
  • 250000
Result
  • Decisive AFDL/Rwandan victory *Overthrow of the three-decade Mobutu regime *Installation of Laurent-Désiré Kabila as president of the Congo *Beginning of the Second Congo War
combatant
  • 24
  • Angola
  • Burundi
  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
  • Zaire
  • AFDL
  • Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
Place
  • Zaire/Democratic Republic of the Congo
Conflict
  • First Congo War
abstract
  • The First Congo War (1996–1997) was a foreign invasion of Zaire led by Rwanda that replaced a decades-long dictator, Mobutu Sésé Seko with the rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Destabilization in eastern Zaire that resulted from the Rwandan Genocide was the final factor that caused numerous internal and external factors to align against the corrupt and inept government in the capital, Kinshasa. The new government renamed the country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but it brought little true change. Kabila alienated his Rwanda and Ugandan allies. To avert a coup, Kabila expelled all Rwandan and Ugandan forces from the Congo. This event was a major cause of the Second Congo War the following year. Some experts prefer to view the two conflicts as one war.
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