Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre), also known by the French acronym AFDL, was a coalition of Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian, and Congolese dissidents...

The third USS Ability (AFD-7/AFDL-7) was a small auxiliary floating drydock in the service of the United States Navy. The construction of AFD-7, a one-section...

AFD-28/AFDL-28 By Doullot & Ewin USS AFD-29/AFDL – AFDL-29 By Doullot & Ewin USS AFD-30/AFDL-30 By Foundation Co. Scrapped in 1979. USS AFD-31/AFDL-31 By...

a leader of one of the three main rebel groups that founded the AFDL. While the AFDL was an ostensibly Zairian rebel movement, Rwanda had played a key...

make the AFDL a force independent of foreign influence. The latter stance resulted in him falling into disfavor with Rwanda, one of the AFDL's main supporters...

(AFDL-25) USS AFDL-26 USS AFDL-27 USS AFDL-28 USS AFDL-29 USS AFDL-30 USS AFDL-31 USS AFDL-32 USS AFDL-33 USS AFDL-34 USS AFDL-35 USS AFDL-36 USS AFDL-37...

rebels of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL), supported by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, took the city defended by the...

growing ethnic violence. In 1996, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the head of the AFDL militia, led a popular rebellion against Mobutu. With rebel forces making...

AFD-1 – AFDL-1 USS AFD-2 USS AFD-3 – AFDL-3 USS AFD-4 – AFDL-4 USS AFD-5 – AFDL-5 USS Dynamic (AFD-6) – AFDL-6 USS Ability (AFD-7) USS AFD-8 – AFDL-8 USS...

Liberation of Congo (AFDL), led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Its plateaus and hills served as strategic strongholds for the advancing AFDL forces, who aimed...