General Laurent Nkunda

In November Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda joined the chorus of condemnation of the Chinese contracts: ‘I do not think it was a good deal for the Congolese people...

No one in the Kinshasa government wanted to talk to the rebel General Laurent Nkunda...

Now he says it might be helpful for the Kinshasa government to open talks with General Laurent Nkunda on rounding up and expelling the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) whose troops include fighters linked to the 1994 genocide...

Since May 2004 when he supported the Congolese mutineers who had seized Bukavu General Laurent Nkunda and his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) have repeatedly humiliated the government's forces...

The Goma traders are mostly Tutsi; some contribute to General Laurent Nkunda's Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple...

Foreign Ministers Bernard Kouchner of France and Karel de Gucht of Belgium want the European Union to send forces to take on General Laurent Nkunda and his rebel Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP)...

The rebel Congolese Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda has called for an uprising against the Kinshasa government...

From his twin bases of Masisi and Rutshuru rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda is resisting efforts to dislodge his Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP)by the national army the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) whose allies are the MaiMai militias of the Patriotes Résistants Congolais (Pareco) and the remnants of the former Rwandan Hutu government's army the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR)...

In Goma diplomats are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed last month between the Congolese government dissident General Laurent Nkunda's Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) and Mai Mai militia including the predominantly Hutu Patriotes Résistants Congolais (Pareco)...

On 10 January the day after the conference was meant to start the most formidable North Kivu militia pulled out: the Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) led by the Congolese Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda...