Backed by troops from Uganda and Rwanda, various rebel factions have captured vast territories across the northern and eastern reaches of the country, including the important cities of Kisangani and Goma.
Civilians complain that soldiers rob their homes and terrorize political opponents.
And the economy is in shambles in rebel-occupied areas cut off from the rest of the country. They started this war without us. They just came and started fighting, and now things are only worse. This new rebellion was launched just a year after Kabila himself marched into the capital, Kinshasa, at the head of a rebel army, deposing President Mobutu Sese-Seko from the helm of a country then called Zaire. But the main issue is that this is the second war in two years and people are tired.