Léonard Nyangoma

The main groups are: the Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (FDD) led by 'Colonel' Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiyé which split from its political wing the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD) under Léonard Nyangoma...

Burundian army sources say the attackers included former soldiers of the Forces Armées Rwandaises and apparently also some followers of Léonard Nyangoma a former Interior Minister and President of the FDD's political wing the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD) which split in 1997 from Ndayikengurukiye's military wing...

Led by Colonel Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye the CNDD-FDD split from the CNDD of ex- Interior Minister Léonard Nyangoma (AC Vol 39 No 8)...

Though CNDD boss Léonard Nyangoma and Ndayikengurukiye suspended the purge itself on 7 April (apparently amid fears for the CNDD's image) they acknowledged the CNDD was undergoing ‘reorganisation'...

And as in Mozambique the Italian Catholic lay Sant'Egidio Community hosted talks; this time between Buyoya's government and its main Hutu-based opponents the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD) led by Léonard Nyangoma formerly Interior Minister under the late President Melchior Ndadayé...

Buyoya and Sinzoyiheba were responsible for villagisation the controversial resettlement policy meant to deprive Léonard Nyangoma's Forces de Défense pour la Démocratie and other guerrillas of their support bases...

Despite the loss of their safe havens the Hutu guerrillas of the Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (FDD) led by Léonard Nyangoma are fighting on...

Ex-Interior Minister Léonard Nyangoma's FDD took the Rwegera belonging to the Burundi-based Greek-owned firm Batralac to Moba Zaïre...

The allegations were rapidly supported by Burundi' s Kinshasa-backed hardline Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie led (like its partner the FDD) by ex-Interior Minister Léonard Nyangoma...

At least two of the major sources of weapons for Burundi's Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie are from Zaïre: one is FDD leader Leonard Nyangoma's new partner a former mistress of Mobutu's known as Gulimani...