✦ History

Part of Kivu conflict

2008 Nord-Kivu campaign

2008

Laurent Nkunda's CNDP rebels attacked the Congolese army in North Kivu. They reached the outskirts of Goma, and many civilians fled.

Contemporaries

National Congress for the Defence of the People

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Other

National Congress for the Defence of the People
Mai-Mai
Democratic Republic of the Congo
United Nations
Rwanda
Angola
Zimbabwe
Laurent Nkunda military commander
José Eduardo dos Santos belligerent leader Joseph Kabila military commander Robert Mugabe belligerent leader Ignace Murwanashyaka military commander Babacar Gaye military commander

Strength and losses

Civilian deaths
100