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IRIN Web Special on Ituri in Eastern DRC
Who's Who - Parties, armed groups and factions
ADF - Allied Democratic Forces - A western Uganda rebel group with rear bases in the DRC. Now thought to have been largely wiped out.
APC - Arme� du peuple congolais or Armee populaire congolaise. The armed wing of the RCD-K-ML led by Mbusa Nyamwisi.
FLC - A merger between MLC, RCD-ML and RCD-N formed under Ugandan tutelage in November 2000 and headed by the MLC's Jean-Pierre Bemba. Collapsed in August 2001.
MLC - Mouvement de liberation du Congo. Formed in 1998 with extensive Ugandan backing. Led by Jean-Pierre Bemba. Headquartered in the northern DRC's Equateur Province.
NALU - National Army for the Liberation of Uganda - Ugandan rebel group now largely wiped out.
RCD-Kisangani - Wamba dia Wamba formed this party when he was ousted from the original RCD in May 1999. It was shortlived and became the RCD-ML in September 1999.
RCD-K-ML - Kisangani faction of the RCD-ML led by Mbusa Nyamwisi with control of areas in North Kivu and Ituri. Allied with Mayi-Mayi and Kinshasa. Also the party of Jean-Baptiste Tibasima.
RCD-ML - Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Mouvement de liberation. Formed in September 1999 by Wamba dia Wamba after he and Ugandan forces were ousted from Kisangani by Rwanda. Not in control of any territory presently.
RCD-National - Led by Roger Lumbala, formed during the splintering of the RCD-ML in mid-2000. Originally based in Bafwasende. Now allied with the MLC.
UPC - Union des patriotes congolais. Hema-dominated. Came to prominence after taking Bunia in August 2002. Sometimes referred to as UPC-FRP (Front for Reconciliation and Peace). Ongoing internal power struggle between Thomas Lubanga and Chief Kahwa Mandro.
UPDF - Ugandan army, the Ugandan People's Defence Forces. Led by Brig James Kazini.
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