Editing AFDL (section)

{{Short description|Anti-Mobutu military coalition (1996–1997)}}
{{Distinguish|text=the [[Alliance of Democratic Forces]], a political party in Ivory Coast, or [[Allied Democratic Forces]], a militia group active in Uganda and the Congo}}
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{{Infobox war faction
| name             = Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo
| native_name      = Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre
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| war              = the [[First Congo War]]
| image            = [[File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-2003).svg|250px]]
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| active           = October 1996 – 17 May 1997
| ideology         = Anti-[[Mobutism]]<br>Anti-[[Hutu]]<ref>Report of the Mapping Exercise Documenting the Most Serious Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Committed Within the Territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Between March 1993 and June 2003 (PDF) (Report). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.</ref><br />[[Democracy]]
| leaders          = [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]]<br>[[André Kisase Ngandu]]<br>{{ill|Anselme Masasu Nindaga|sv}}<br>{{ill|Déogratias Bugera|sv}}
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| area             = {{flag|Zaire}}
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| predecessor      = 
| successor        = [[Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo]]
| allies           = {{flag|Uganda}}<br>{{flag|Rwanda|1962}}<br>{{flag|Burundi}}<br>{{flag|Eritrea}}{{sfnp|Plaut|2016|pp=54–55}}
| opponents        = {{flag|Zaire}}<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of UNITA.svg}} [[UNITA]]<br>{{flagicon image|Flag of Rwanda (1962-2001).svg}} [[Army for the Liberation of Rwanda|ALiR]]
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The '''Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire''' ({{langx|fr|Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre}}), also known by the French acronym '''AFDL''', was a coalition of [[Rwanda]]n, [[Uganda]]n, [[Burundi]]an, and [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] dissidents, disgruntled minority groups, and nations that toppled [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] and brought [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]] to power in the [[First Congo War]]. Although the group was successful in overthrowing Mobutu, the alliance fell apart after Kabila did not agree to be dictated by his foreign backers, [[Rwanda]] and [[Uganda]], which marked the beginning of the [[Second Congo War]] in 1998.<ref name="Hutu">{{citeweb|url=https://www.hutugenocide.org/afdl-and-hutu-genocide/|title=AFDL AND HUTU GENOCIDE|work=Hutu Genocide|accessdate=2023-08-06}}</ref>