Breaking down the facts behind James Kabarebe Bio, Wife, Education, Patriotic Army, First & Second Congo War—uncover the essential highlights.

During the First Congo War, James Kabarebe was the commanding officer of a Rwandan-led army that crossed into Zaire to defeat the ex-FAR and Interahamwe, Hutu militia groups that had committed the Rwandan genocide and were engaged in cross-border attacks on Rwanda. This war eventually spread across Zaire. Kabarebe helped engineer the capture of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 17, 1997, and the defeat of Mobutu Sese Seko.  He was appointed the head of Congolese Army by Kabila. However, around July 27, 1998, when L.D.Kabila realise the man his a Rwandan nationality was dismissed from this post and made a military advisor and replaced by General Célestin Kifwa, which was Congolese nationality who had previously served in Angola.