Forces for Renewal

Forces for Renewal Forces du Renouveau
Leader	Azarias Ruberwa
Founded	2003
Headquarters	avenue Haut commandement, Gombe, Kinshasa
Ideology	Federalism, Liberalism
Political position	Centre-right
Official colours	Light Blue, White
Seats in the National Assembly	26 / 500
Sears in the Senate	7 / 108
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The Forces for Renewal (French: Forces du Renouveau) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The party originated as a breakaway faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) and was previously known as the RCD-Kisangani-Movement for Liberation.

The RCD-K-ML was accorded 15 seats in the Transitional National Assembly and participated in the Transitional Government headed by Joseph Kabila.

Human Rights Watch has accused RCD-K-ML of conscripting child soldiers. ^[1]

Their leader, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi came eleventh in the 2006 presidential elections with 96,503 votes, and won 26 seats in the simultaneous election to the National Assembly.

It won seven out of 108 seats in the indirect elections to the Senate.

It joined the government of Antoine Gizenga where Nyamwisi became Foreign Minister.

References

^ CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH ARMED FORCES AND GROUPS, The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2006-01-31, accessed on 2007-02-11

Armed groups in the First and Second Congo Wars

National armies

Pro-government	Zaire (FAZ, under Mobuto Sese Seko / FARDC, after Mobutu) • Angola (FAA, in Second War) • Chad (FANT) • Libya • Namibia (NDF) • Sudan • Zimbabwe (ZNA)

Anti-government	Angola (FAA, in First War) • Burundi (FAB) • Rwanda (RPF/RDF) • Uganda (UPDF)

Militias and
rebel groups

Rwanda-aligned	Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL, Rwanda-Uganda backed alliance) • Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) • RCD–Goma • Banyamulenge (ethnic Tutsis in South Kivu) • RCD-Congo (faction of RCD-Goma created in 2002)

Uganda-aligned	Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC, created in 1998) • RCD-Kisangani/Mouvement de Libération (RCD-K/ML or "RCD-Wamba", created 1999) • RCD-National (RCD-N, split from RCD-K/ML) • Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) • Front de Libération du Congo (FLC, formed from the MLC, RCD-N and RCD-ML from 2000 to 2001)

Anti-government, other	Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) • National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA, in Second War)

Anti-Rwanda	Interahamwe • Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda (RDR, successor organization to the Interahamwe) . • Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALiR, successor to RDR in 1997) • Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR, created in 2000)

Anti-Uganda	Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) • Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) • Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI)

Anti-Burundi	National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) • National Liberation Front (FLN/FROLINA)

Government-aligned, other	Mai-Mai • National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA, in First War)

Alliances sometimes changed dramatically over the course of the wars. Some groups may be associated with multiple, ostensibly opposed factions.

Political parties in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Major parliamentary parties	Alliance of the Presidential Majority (People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy - Movement for the Liberation of Congo - Unified Lumumbist Party - Social Movement for Renewal - Forces for Renewal - Congolese Rally for Democracy - Coalition of Congolese Democrats - Convention of Christian Democrats - Union of Mobutuist Democrats - Camp of the Fatherland - Federalist Christian Democracy – Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy - Christian Democrat Party- Union of Federalist Nationalists of Congo) Union for the Nation (Movement for the Liberation of Congo, Union for Congo's Reconstruction, Rally of Congolese Democrats and Nationalists, Convention for the Republic and Democracy)

Major boycotting party	Union for Democracy and Social Progress

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