Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre), also known by the French acronym AFDL, was a coalition of Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian, and Congolese dissidents...
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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...
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Auxiliary floating drydock (redirect from USS AFDL)
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...
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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...
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André Kisase Ngandu (section AFDL commander)
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...
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(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...
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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...
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growing ethnic violence. In 1996, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the head of the AFDL militia, led a popular rebellion against Mobutu. With rebel forces making...
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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...
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Liberation of Congo (AFDL), led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Its plateaus and hills served as strategic strongholds for the advancing AFDL forces, who aimed...
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