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The Times
November 3, 2017
In desperation, he crossed the front line to negotiate with Laurent Nkunda, the CNDP warlord who stood accused of multiple war crimes. “It scared the shit out of me,” he admits, but he nevertheless demanded that his rangers – armed but neutral – be allowed to return to guard the gorillas. AstonishinglyÃâà...
The New Indian Express
October 5, 2017
Rebel soldiers loyal to Gen Laurent Nkunda carry a soldier wounded in the village of Kiwanja in eastern DR Congo. AP. GOMA: Ten fighters were killed Thursday when the army launched a pre-dawn attack on a militia in the restive eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo, a military spokesman saidÃâà...
CSS Resources (blog)
May 2, 2017
An early sign of this was the defection of three senior Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) officers – among them Laurent Nkunda – to form a political movement that morphed into the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebellion in July 2006. The region was once again plunged intoÃâà...
KT Press
March 9, 2017
A reclusive commander of FDLR rebels is finally in Rwanda – despite a campaign launched by Congolese groups fiercely opposing his repatriation or exchange him for Gen Laurent Nkunda, KT Press exclusively reveals. Brigadier General Comes Semugeshi surfaced uninvited at a UN base in eastern DRÃâà...
Huffington Post
January 20, 2012
The television in the squalid hotel dining room was tuned to an early morning French newscast. The male commentator was quoting a BBC report that General Laurent Nkunda, head of the CNDP, had been ousted. There was something terribly wrong about the report. Our group had just come from a meeting with Nkunda atÃâà...
New York Times
January 23, 2009
Laurent Nkunda, the Congolese rebel leader whose brutal tactics and Congo-size ambitions have threatened to bring about another catastrophic war in central Africa, was arrested late Thursday, removing an explosive factor from the regional equation. According to United Nations officials and RwandanÃâà...