SUMMARY

FAPC and FNI (Forces armées du peuple Congolais, People's Armed Forces of Congo; Front Nationalist et Integrationist, Front for National Integration) formed a short-lived coalition as part of the Uganda supported movements in Ituri in 2003. In November 2002 the Government of Uganda concluded an agreement with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), according to the agreement Uganda would withdraw all of their troops from DR Congo territory before the end of the year. In May 2003 the Ugandan government withdrew their troops but as a precaution the country tried to secure control over as much territory as possible for their allies in the spring-time of 2003. After the Ugandan troops left FAPC and FNI continued a relatively close cooperation, in which they agreed not to fight each other, to split taxes until they fell out over a mining deal in June 2004.

The main one-sided violence reported was when FAPC and FNI attacked to the village of Nizi in the Mambisa community of the Djugu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri district.

Nizi was a mining town, which was home to the Kilomoto mining company that mainly focused on gold mining. The attack on Nizi had a twofold aim: First, FAPC and FNI focused on chasing out the Hema who controlled the gold mines in Nizi. Second, they also intended to destroy a UPC camp which was based in the town. In the attack, 33 civilians were killed.

The FAPC, FNI coalition first became active as a one-sided actor in the UCDP data in 2003, when the one-sided violence resulted in more than 25 civilian deaths. The threshold was reached in June that year when the coalition attacked the town of Nizi, which resulted in more than 25 deaths.