General Laurent Nkunda

In Congo-Kinshasa dissident Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda a former senior officer in the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie led a mutiny in June 2004 and is subject to an international arrest warrant issued by Kinshasa in September 2005...

Meanwhile in North Kivu Tutsi dissident General Laurent Nkunda now loosely allied to Bemba accused President Joseph Kabila of planning to send Hutu soldiers against him and provoke a Tutsi-Hutu war...

In neighbouring North Kivu Laurent Nkunda has declared he will accept election results and is looking for a political way-out partly thanks to Rwanda's reduced support for the Tutsi general...

Bemba is known to have opened up a line of communication with Laurent Nkunda the renegade RCD-Goma militant who has led several strikes against the Kinshasa government's authority...

The regional commander of the national army General Gabriel Amissi claims that the dissident General Laurent Nkunda is again recruiting young men for his rebel army...

Several hundred troops following Laurent Nkunda a dissident RCD officer attacked a brigade of the newly unified national army the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC)...

That speculation could tempt Kabila's allies - Kinshasa's maison militaire is effectively a dedicated presidential security unit - to launch a pre-emptive attack against General Laurent Nkunda who commanded the May mutiny and is suspected of being in the area with several thousand men...

Congolese fears of the Kivus seceding are strengthened because North Kivu business interests back the dissident officers Mutebusi and Laurent Nkunda...

Laurent Nkunda and his forces most of whom speak Kinyarwanda and come from North Kivu...

Many of its middle-class sit in refugee camps in Rwanda; in June the city was looted by the troops of General Laurent Nkunda and Colonel Jules Mutebusi then fleeced by Gen...