The remaining CNDP splinter faction, led by Bosco Ntaganda, was supposed to integrate into the national army.

In January 2009 the CNDP split and as part of a deal between Rwanda and the DRC, Kigali put CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda under house arrest.In 2008 the DRC and Rwanda joined forces to root out the FDLR in South and North Kivu provinces.In 2006 Joseph Kabila won the presidency in the DRC’s first democratic elections in 40 years.The April 2002 Sun City Agreement, the ensuing July 2002 Pretoria Accord between Rwanda and Congo, as well as the Luanda Agreement between Uganda and Congo, put an official end to the war as the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power in July 2003.After a bodyguard shot and killed President Kabila in 2001, his son Joseph Kabila was appointed president at the age of 29.The ensuing conflict has often been referred to as Africa’s World War with nine countries fighting each other on Congolese soil.Kabila’s government received military support from Angola and Zimbabwe and other regional partners.Laurent Désiré Kabila became president in May 1997 and in 1998 he ordered Rwandan and Ugandan forces to leave the eastern DRC, fearing annexation of the mineral-rich territory by the two regional powers.A coalition comprised of the Ugandan and Rwandan armies, along with Congolese opposition leader Laurent Désiré Kabila, eventually defeated dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.In 1996 Rwanda and Uganda invaded the eastern DRC in an effort to root out the remaining perpetrators of the genocide.The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that only 7% of these refugees were perpetrators of the genocide - often referred to as Interhamwe or FDLR (the Federation for the Liberation of Rwanda).As a new Tutsi government was established in Rwanda after the genocide, more than two million Hutus sought refuge in eastern Congo.In the wake of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed, millions of Rwandan refugees flooded into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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