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12 December 2000 Gentil, a fourteen year old soldier, claims he was abducted from school by Kabila's troops and sent to the frontline to fight for the government. Two months ago, Gentil was captured by rebels and he's now taken up their cause. At Bunya, headquarters of the RCD/ML rebels, Ugandan instructors train young rebels like Gentil.
Near the Congo border, a band of Hutu rebels hold tourists hostage. Locked Up Abroad: Uganda : JULY 7 9P et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com
While Thomas Lubanga, a DR Congo rebel, faces criminal charges in the Hague, the hunt for another man wanted war lord continues in central Africa. Joseph Kony leads Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army and, as Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports, he and his movement have sent thousands of civilians on the ...
May 2006 The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labour to extract the ore, forcing locals to work in sub-human conditions. "Once you get down there, there's no air", describes one worker. "The rocks often bury us and you have to crawl through the ...
30 January 2001 Laurent Kabila spent 30 years with anti-Mobutu guerrillas in Eastern Congo. These guerrillas became the Mayi Mayi - not a tribe but a popular defence movement. Under the command of Kabila's former companions, they have been fighting occupying troops from Rwanda since 1998.