The wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the entire Great Lakes region are the consequence of a unique combination of factors, chief among them the collapse of the Zairian / Congolese state and the territorial extension of neighbors' civil wars (see Reyntjens 2009). This chapter...
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Defectors included close allies of President Kagame, senior officers of the armed forces and the intelligence services who played an important role during the RPF’s invasion of Rwanda in the early 1990s (Cooke 2011; EIU 2011). Rumours about a coup d’état spread in Kigali in 2010, spurred...